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Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness. ↗

— Oprah Winfrey

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There is a melancholy that stems from greatness. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

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All greatness of character is dependent on individuality. The man who has no other existence than that which he partakes in common with all around him, will never have any other than an existence of mediocrity. ↗

— James F. Cooper

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Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events. ↗

— John Drinkwater

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We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

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Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness. ↗

— Walter Scott

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It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs self-denial; in all places it is liable to opposition, but its end is glorious, and the universe will yet do it homage. ↗

— Charles Simmons

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