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And your very flesh shall be a great poem.
Walt Whitman
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
Lao Tzu
A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.
Friedrich Nietzsche
In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed and in the next place oblige it to control itself.
James Madison
There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.
Albert Camus
The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.
The three great problems of this century the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.
Victor Hugo
Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Preachers in pulpits talked about what a great message is in the book. No matter what you do, somebody always imputes meaning into your books.
Dr. Seuss
Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.
Albert Einstein
We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.
Rabindranath Tagore
Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.
Søren Kierkegaard
Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
Gore Vidal
People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.
In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.
Vincent Van Gogh
There are many people in the world who really don't understand-or say they don't-what is the great issue between the free world and the Communist world. Let them come to Berlin!
John F. Kennedy
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
Oscar Wilde
There is no great genius without some touch of madness.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.
We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld