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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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Sublimity is the echo of great mind. ↗

— Longinus

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A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it. ↗

— Jean Rostand

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Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it. ↗

— Jean Rostand

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

— Tryon Edwards

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Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

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Could the one whom Christians worship be merely a mythological creation, or is he real? These questions have exercised many great minds and have been the dominant issue in New Testament studies during this century. ↗

— John Clayton

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

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

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