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Great and good are seldom the same man.
Great and good are seldom the same man.
For he that once is good, is ever great.
For he that once is good, is ever great.
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
The great man is the man who can get himself made and who will
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The great man is the man who can get himself made and who will
get himself made out of anything he finds at hand.
No man was ever great without divine inspiration.
[Lat., Nemo vir magnus aliquo afflatu divino unquam fuit.]
No man was ever great without divine inspiration.
[Lat., Nemo vir magnus aliquo afflatu divino unquam fuit.]
Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions.
Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions.
That man is great, and he alone,
Who serves a greatness not his own,
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That man is great, and he alone,
Who serves a greatness not his own,
For neither praise nor pelf:
Content to know and be unknown:
Whole in himself.
We have not the love of greatness, but the love of the love of
greatness.
We have not the love of greatness, but the love of the love of
greatness.
Ajax the great . . .
Himself a host.
Ajax the great . . .
Himself a host.
