"You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration."

Allen, James · Greatness · 2 fans >>
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"Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary -- they are in the true order. It is the other species of men who are not what they ought to be."

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"Greatness is a spiritual condition."

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"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 to love --although I have put it last, is the rarest."

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"We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself."

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"Because you are a great lord, you believe yourself to be a great genius. You took the trouble to be born, but no more."

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"The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end."

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"Great men are not always wise."

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"The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need."

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"Great people are meteors designed to burn so that the earth may be lighted."

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