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Great minds have purposes; others have wishes. ↗

— Washington Irving

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To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind. ↗

— John Tillotson

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The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life. ↗

— Anna Letitia Barbauld

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Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds. ↗

— Tryon Edwards

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Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

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Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing. ↗

— Shakti Gawain

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Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them. ↗

— Washington Irving

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I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned. ↗

— Lord Byron

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