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Worldly pleasures, such as flow from greatness, riches, honours, and sensual gratifications, are infinitely worse than none. ↗

— David Brainerd

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Monuments and archaeological pieces serve as testimonies of man's greatness and establish a dialogue between civilizations showing the extent to which human beings are linked. ↗

— Vincente Fox

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You must remain focused on your journey to greatness. ↗

— Les Brown

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Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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Be free all worthy spirits, and stretch yourselves, for greatness and for height. ↗

— George Chapman

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He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported with the later. ↗

— Henry Fielding

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There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of national self-respect and honor, beneath which are shielded and defended a people's safety and greatness. ↗

— Eldridge Cleaver

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It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants. ↗

— William Cobbett

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Illusions of grandeur are not the same as visions of greatness. ↗

— Edwin Louis Cole

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Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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