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“No one knows how greatness comes to a man. It may lie in his blackness, sleeping, or it may lance into him like those driven fiery particles from outer space. These things, however, are known about greatness: need gives it life and puts it in action; it never comes without pain; it leaves a man changed, chastened, and exalted at the same time--he can never return to simplicity.”

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Book:Sweet Thursday

Source: Sweet Thursday

“The really great people are the ones who know how to make the little people feel great.”

People Knows Feels Littles Know How Greatness Really Great Great People

Author:Ashleigh Brilliant

“It passes in the world for greatness of mind, to be perpetually giving and loading people with bounties; but it is one thing to know how to give and another thing not to know how to keep. Give me a heart that is easy and open, but I will have no holes in it; let it be bountiful with judgment, but I will have nothing run out of it I know not how.”

People Knows World Giving Mind Heart Running Easy Know How One Thing Greatness Judgment Give Me Holes Bounty

Author:Seneca the Younger

“A great man scarcely knows how he dines, how he dresses; but without railing or precision, his living is natural and poetic.”

Knows Men Natural Know How Greatness Dresses Great Men Poetic Precision Dine

Book:Emerson's Essays: Top Essays

Source: Emerson's Essays: Top Essays

“First and foremost an artist should pay homage to grandness, honour and bow to it, and not try to extinguish the fierce flames of such, in an attempt to have his own feeble light shine brighter. When one isn't able to acknowledge greatness, I would really want to know how he endeavours to make me experience it.”

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Author:Felix Mendelssohn

“The greatness comes not when things go always good for you. But the greatness comes when you're really tested, when you take some knocks, some disappointments, when sadness comes. Because only if you've been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.”

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Author:Richard M. Nixon

“When tea becomes ritual, it takes its place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things. Where is beauty to be found? In great things that, like everything else, are doomed to die, or in small things that aspire to nothing, yet know how to set a jewel of infinity in a single moment?”

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Author:Muriel Barbery

“Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- or so they used to say. It would be interesting to know how many great women have had great fathers and husbands behind them.”

Source: Gaudy Night

“The prizes of life are at the end of each journey, not near the beginning; and it is not given to me to know how many steps are necessary in order to reach my goal. Failure I may still encounter at the thousandth step, yet success hides behind the next bend in the road. Never will I know how close it lies unless I turn the corner.”

Knows May Stills Ends Lying Order Turns Next Given Goal Behinds Steps Know How Journey Greatness Corners Encounters Prize Bends In The Road

Book:The Greatest Secret In The World

Source: The Greatest Secret In The World