Best greatness & remembered Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I do not hesitate to say that the road to eminence and power, from an obscure condition, ought not to be made too easy, nor a thing too much of course. If rare merit be the rarest of all things, it ought to pass through some sort of probation. The temple of honor ought to be seated on an eminence. If it be open through virtue, let it be remembered, too, that virtue is never tried but by some difficulty and some struggle.”

Source: Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the proceedings in certain societies in London, relative to that event. In a letter intended to have been sent to a gentleman in Paris ... The seventh edition

“A people who still remembered that their ancestors had been the masters of the world would have applauded, with conscious pride, the representation of ancient freedom, if they had not long since been accustomed to prefer the solid assurance of bread to the unsubstantial visions of liberty and greatness.”

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“Odd words floated back to them over the hundreds of heads. "Nobility of spirit"..."intellectual contribution"..."greatness of heart"...It did not mean very much. It had little to do with Dumbledore as Harry had known him. He suddenly remembered Dumbledore's idea of a few words, "nitwit," "oddment," "blubber," and "tweak," and again had to suppress a grin.”

Heart Mean Littles Ideas Spirit Known Greatness Intellectual Odd Remembered Contribution Nobility Few Words Tweak

Author:J. K. Rowling

“Unless we change our ways and our direction, our greatness as a nation will soon be a footnote in the history books, a distant memory of an offshore island, lost in the mist of time like Camelot, remembered kindly for its noble past.”

Way Book Past Time Lost Nations Change Memories Greatness Noble Remembered Islands Mist History Books Footnotes Camelot Offshore

Author:Margaret Thatcher

“Every work of science great enough to be well remembered for a few generations affords some exemplification of the defective state of the art of reasoning of the time when it was written; and each chief step in science has been a lesson in logic.”

Wells Has Beens Art States Enough Science Steps Written Generations Greatness Hard Work Lessons Logic Chiefs Remembered Reasoning Defective

Book:The Essential Peirce, Volume 1: Selected Philosophical Writings? (1867–1893)

Source: The Essential Peirce, Volume 1: Selected Philosophical Writings? (1867–1893)

“Do not trouble yourselves about standards or ideals; but try to be faithful and natural: remember that there is no greatness, no beauty, which does not come from truth to your own knowledge of things; and keep on working, even if your work is not long remembered.”

Ifs Trying Long Doe Truth Remember Natural Trouble Greatness Standards Ideals Remembered Faithful Being Faithful

Book:Of Literature

Source: Of Literature

“I'm going to end a life that I thought could contain every kind of greatness but that in fact consisted only of my incapacity to really want to be great. Whenever I arrived at a certainty, I remembered that those with the greatest certainties are lunatics.”

Want Kind Ends Facts Greatness Certainty Remembered Incapacity

Book:The Education of the Stoic: The Only Manuscript of the Baron of Teive

Source: The Education of the Stoic: The Only Manuscript of the Baron of Teive

“A dying people tolerates the present, rejects the future, and finds its satisfactions in past greatness and half remembered glory”

People Past Half Dying Greatness Glory Satisfaction Remembered Rejects Tolerate

Book:America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction

Source: America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction

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