--SPARKS.
He only is great who has the habits of greatness; who, after
performing what none in ten thousand could accomplish, passes on like
Samson, and "tells neither father nor mother of it."--LAVATER.
He who comes up to his own idea of greatness must always have had a
very low standard of it in his mind.--HAZLITT.
In life, we shall find many men that are great, and some men that are
good, but very few men that are both great and good.--COLTON.
A really great man is known by three signs,--generosity in the design,
humanity in the execution, and moderation in success.--BISMARCK.
Nothing can make a man truly great but being truly good and partaking
of God's holiness.--MATTHEW HENRY.
The greatest truths are the simplest; so are the greatest men.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness
thrust upon them.--SHAKESPEARE.
No man has come to true greatness who has not felt in some degree that
his life belongs to his race, and that what God gives him, He gives
him for mankind.--PHILLIPS BROOKS.
Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be
great.--EMERSON.
GRIEF.--Grief is the culture of the soul, it is the true fertilizer.
--MADAME DE GIRARDIN.
Light griefs are plaintive, but great ones are dumb.--SENECA.
If the internal griefs of every man could be read, written on his
forehead, how many who now excite envy would appear to be the objects
of pity?--METASTASIO.
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