“It is a great consolation for me to remember that the Lord, to whom I had drawn near in humble and child-like faith, has suffered and died for me, and that He will look on me in love and compassion.”
— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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“It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.”
— Charles Kingsley
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“No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.”
— H. L. Mencken
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“Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing.”
— Shakti Gawain
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“And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.”
— Homer
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“The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates.”
— David Foster Wallace
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“The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.”
— Bertrand Russell
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“Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.”
— Benjamin Disraeli
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“Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.”
— Thornton Wilder
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“I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.”
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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“A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.”
— Walter Bagehot
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