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The essence of
greatness is the perception that virtue is enough.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet,
Essayist
No great man
ever complains of want of opportunity.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet,
Essayist
He is great
who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of
others.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet,
Essayist
Great people
are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any
material force, that thoughts rule the world.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet,
Essayist
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A great man
stands on God. A small man on a great man.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet,
Essayist
Not he is
great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of
mind.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet,
Essayist
No great thing
is created suddenly.
-- Epictetus
50-120, Stoic Philosopher
I distrust
Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them
and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little
man's pleasure when they come a cropper.
-- Edward M. Forster
1879-1970, British Novelist,
Essayist
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