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“Well might the ancients make silence a god; for it is the element of all godhood, infinitude, or transcendental greatness,--at once the source and the ocean wherein all such begins and ends.”

Wells Ends Might Silence Greatness Source Elements Ocean Transcendental

Book:Works

Source: Works

“The greatness of common sense, and its title to reverence, appear in this, that it deals with vast complexity, that is, with the innumerable elements of a situation. Common sense discerns and judges a path through this knotted and tangled maze.”

Deals Common Situation Path Greatness Judging Elements Common Sense Titles Complexity Reverence Tangled Mazes

Author:James Vila Blake

“Only the rare expands our minds, only as we shudder in the face of a new force do our feelings increase. Therefore the extraordinary is always the measure of all greatness. And the creative element always remains the value superior to all others and the mind superior to our minds.”

Mind Feelings Faces Values Force Creativity Creative Greatness Elements Increase Remains Extraordinary Superiors

Author:Stefan Zweig

“Fate forces its way to the powerful and violent. With subservient obedience it will assume for years dependency on one individual:Caesar, Alexander, Napoleon, because it loves the elemental human being who grows to resemble it, the intangible element. Sometimes, and these are the most astonishing moments in world history, the thread of fate falls into the hands of a complete nobody but only for a twitching minute.”

“No president in history has been more vilified or was more vilivied during the time he was President than Lincoln. Those who knew him, his secretaries, have written that he was deeply hurt by what was said about him and drawn about him, but on the other hand, Lincoln had the great strength of character never to display it, always able to stand tall and strong and firm no matter how harsh or unfair the criticism might be. These elements of greatness, of course, inspire us all today.”

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

Spiritual Religious Greatness Elements Eternal Regard Indispensable Solemn True Greatness

Author:Daniel Webster

“Many of the ugly pages of American history have been obscured and forgotten....America owes a debt of justice which it has only begun to pay. If it loses the will to finish or slackens in its determination, history will recall its crimes and the country that would be great will lack the most indispensable element of greatness-justice.”

Ifs Has Beens Country Would Be America Loses Justice Pay Crime Greatness Elements Pages Determination Forgotten Ugly Debt Recalls American History Indispensable Misdeeds

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“The great man is too often all of a piece; it is the little man that is a bundle of contradictory elements. He is inexhaustible. You never come to the end of the surprises he has in store for you.”

Men Littles Ends Pieces Greatness Elements Surprise Stores Great Men Contradictory Bundles Little Man

Author:W. Somerset Maugham

“The first element of greatness is fundamental humbleness (this should not be confused with servility); the second is freedom from self; the third is intrepid courage, which, taken in its widest interpretation, generally goes with truth; and the fourth-the power of love-although I have put it last, is the rarest.”

Should Firsts Self Lasts Taken Greatness Elements Thirds Fundamentals Confused Interpretation Fourth Power Of Love Humbleness Servility

Book:Autobiography

Source: Autobiography

“The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity.”

Men Time Fighting Greatness Elements Great Men Sincerity Hinder

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche