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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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« A great man, I take it, is a man so inspired and permeated with the ideas of God and the Christly spirit as to be too magnanimous for vengeance, and too unselfish to seek his own ends. »

― David Thomas

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« A solemn and religious regard to spiritual and eternal things is an indispensable element of all true greatness. »

― Daniel Webster

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« That man is great, and he alone,
Who serves a greatness not his own,
For neither praise nor pelf:
Content to know and be unknown:
Whole in himself. »

― Robert Bulwer-Lytton

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« True greatness does not consist so much in doing extraordinary things, as in conducting ordinary affairs with a noble demeanor and from a right motive. »

― Elias Lyman Magoon

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« Nature never sends a great man into the planet, without confiding the secret to another soul. »

― Ralph Waldo Emerson

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« All of this points to the power possessed by a superior personality. On the one hand, such a man will have a view of the real sentiments of the great mass of humanity and therefore cannot be deceived; on the other, he will impress the people so profoundly, by his mere existence and by the impact of his personality, that they will be swayed by him as the grass by the wind. »

— Hexagram #20 from the I Ching

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« The great man, whether we comprehend him in the most intense activity of his work or in the restful equipoise of his forces, is powerful, involuntarily and composedly powerful, but he is not avid for power. What he is avid for is the realization of what he has in mind, the incarnation of the spirit. »

― Martin Buber

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« It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. »

― Ralph Waldo Emerson

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« He is great who is what he is from Nature, and who never reminds us of others. »

― Ralph Waldo Emerson

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« Every life has its potentiality of greatness, and as it is impossible to be outside God, the best is consciously to dwell in Him. »

— Henri-Frédéric Amiel

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« Each star passes but once in the night through the meridian over our heads and shines there but an instant; so, in the heaven of the mind each thought touches its zenith but once, and in that moment all its brilliancy and all its greatness culminate. »

— Henri-Frédéric Amiel

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« For that is truly great power which does not degenerate into mere force but remains inwardly united with the fundamental principles of right and of justice. When we understand this point — namely, that greatness and justice must be indissolubly united — we understand the true meaning of all that happens in heaven and on earth. »

— Hexagram #34 from the I Ching

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