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So let his name through Europe ring!
A man of mean estate,
Who dies as firm as read more
So let his name through Europe ring!
A man of mean estate,
Who dies as firm as Sparta's king,
Because his soul was great.
The great man is the man who can get himself made and who will
get himself made out of read more
The great man is the man who can get himself made and who will
get himself made out of anything he finds at hand.
Be good and you will be lonely
Be good and you will be lonely
No great deed is done
By falterers who ask for certainty.
No great deed is done
By falterers who ask for certainty.
Great and good are seldom the same man.
Great and good are seldom the same man.
The price of greatness is responsibility.
The price of greatness is responsibility.
Great abilities produce great vices as well as virtues.
Great abilities produce great vices as well as virtues.
Nothing can cover his high fame but Heaven;
No pyramids set off his memories,
But the eternal read more
Nothing can cover his high fame but Heaven;
No pyramids set off his memories,
But the eternal substance of his greatness,--
To which I leave him.
Great men are rarely isolated mountain- peaks; they are the summits of ranges.
Great men are rarely isolated mountain- peaks; they are the summits of ranges.
