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The herd seek
out the great, not for their sake but for their influence;
and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte
1769-1821, French General,
Emperor
Greatness be
nothing unless it be lasting.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte
1769-1821, French General,
Emperor
Great people
are meteors designed to burn so that the earth may be
lighted.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte
1769-1821, French General,
Emperor
The greatness
of a man's power is the measure of his surrender.
-- William Booth
1829-1912, British Religious
Leader, Salvation Army Founder
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All your youth
you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you
find it taken for granted, you are unnerved.
-- Elizabeth Bowen
1899-1973, Anglo-Irish
Novelist
No one who has
come to true greatness has not felt in some degree that his
life belongs to the people, and what God has given them he
gives it for mankind.
-- Phillips Brooks
1835-1893, American Minister,
Poet
False
greatness is unsociable and remote: conscious of its own
frailty, it hides, or at least averts its face, and reveals
itself only enough to create an illusion and not be
recognized as the meanness that it really is. True greatness
is free, kind, familiar and popular; it lets itself be
touched and handled, it loses nothing by being seen at close
quarters; the better one knows it, the more one admires it.
-- Jean De La Bruyère
1645-1696, French Classical
Writer
Great men are
the guideposts and landmarks in the state.
-- Edmund Burke
1729-1797, British Political
Writer, Statesman
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