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A quotation from Ella Wheeler Wilcox
I have always been looking for the noble qualities in human beings, and I have found them. There are great souls all along the highway of life, and there are great qualities even in the people who seem common and weak to us ordinarily.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850-1919) American author, poet, temperance advocate, spiritualist
The Heart of the New Thought, “A Worn Out Creed” (1902)
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If I had a time machine and didn't want to risk altering the future, I'd go to Fenway Park on September 28, 1960.
A quotation from Thomas Carlyle
All greatness is unconscious, or it is little and naught.
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Essay (1837-12-06), “On Sir Walter Scott,” The London and Westminster Review, No. 12/55, Art. 2 (1838-01)
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“#Fascism’s core political project of national rebirth is highly congruent with foreign #conquest because conquest demonstrates the nation’s restored #greatness on the only stage where it can be performed: internationally.” https://www.liberalcurrents.com/yes-its-fascism/
Liberal Currents · Yes, It's FascismIt’s not an omen or threat or hint of fascism—it’s the thing itself.
Are you a #master #manipulator?
Do you have #ambitions of being the #god of the #universe?
Can you #envision yourself rising above #greatness and #grandeur?
Are you capable of unveiling the specialities within yourself?
Good. You're exactly who I'm looking for.
Because you already have been one.
Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones
[L’intérêt d’argent est la grande épreuve des petits caractères, mais ce n’est encore que la plus petite pour les caractères distingués.]
Nicolas Chamfort (1741-1794) French writer, epigrammist (b. Nicolas-Sébastien Roch)
Products of Perfected Civilization [Produits de la Civilisation Perfectionée], Part 1 “Maxims and Thoughts [Maximes et Pensées],” ch. 2, ¶ 164 (1795) [tr. Mathers (1926)]
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A quotation from Bertrand Russell
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 (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Conquest of Happiness, Part 1, ch. 1 “What Makes People Unhappy?” (1930)
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His name is Roy Hamilton & #elvis sampled his style & career - We can never say that Elvis didn’t do what he did!! But Roy’s name should live in our minds as “The Hand” when ppl refer to Elvis as “the King” #blackhistorymonth #history #greatness #honorhim #music #america #art #remember
A quotation from Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
The world’s great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor great scholars great men.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-1894) American poet, essayist, scholar
Article (1858-04), “Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table,” Atlantic Monthly
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A quotation from Thomas Carlyle
My friend, brag not yet of our American cousins! Their quantity of cotton, dollars, industry and resources, I believe to be almost unspeakable; but I can by no means worship the like of these. What great human soul, what great thought, what great noble thing that one could worship, or loyally admire, has yet been produced there? None: the American cousins have yet done none of these things.
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Essay (1850-02-01), “The Present Time,” Latter-Day Pamphlets, No. 1
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WIST Quotations · Essay (1850-02-01), "The Present Time," Latter-Day Pamphlets, No. 1 - Carlyle, Thomas | WIST QuotationsMy friend, brag not yet of our American cousins! Their quantity of cotton, dollars, industry and resources, I believe to be almost unspeakable; but I can by no means worship the like of these. What great human soul, what great thought, what great noble thing that one could worship, or…
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My friend, brag not yet of our American cousins! Their quantity of cotton, dollars, industry and resources, I believe to be almost unspeakable; but I can by no means worship the like of these. What great human soul, what great thought, what great noble thing that one could worship, or loyally admire, has yet…
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WIST Quotations · Essay (1850-02-01), "The Present Time," Latter-Day Pamphlets, No. 1 - Carlyle, Thomas | WIST QuotationsMy friend, brag not yet of our American cousins! Their quantity of cotton, dollars, industry and resources, I believe to be almost unspeakable; but I can by no means worship the like of these. What great human soul, what great thought, what great noble thing that one could worship, or…
« Man’s unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the finite. »
— Thomas Carlyle
· https://poligraf.tumblr.com/post/747057135686451200/mans-unhappiness-as-i-construe-comes-of-his
TumblrPoligraf · The Artistic ImpulseMan's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the finite.
— Thomas Carlyle
« No man was ever great without divine inspiration. »
— Cicero
· https://poligraf.tumblr.com/post/746956072533753856/no-man-was-ever-great-without-divine
TumblrPoligraf · The Artistic ImpulseNo man was ever great without divine inspiration.
— Cicero
« A great man, I take it, is a man so inspired and permeated with the ideas of God and the Christly spirit as to be too magnanimous for vengeance, and too unselfish to seek his own ends. »
― David Thomas
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TumblrPoligraf · The Artistic ImpulseA great man, I take it, is a man so inspired and permeated with the ideas of God and the Christly spirit as to be too magnanimous for vengeance, and too unselfish to seek his own ends.
— David Thomas
« A solemn and religious regard to spiritual and eternal things is an indispensable element of all true greatness. »
― Daniel Webster
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TumblrPoligraf · The Artistic ImpulseA solemn and religious regard to spiritual and eternal things is an indispensable element of all true greatness.
— Daniel Webster
« That man is great, and he alone,
Who serves a greatness not his own,
For neither praise nor pelf:
Content to know and be unknown:
Whole in himself. »
― Robert Bulwer-Lytton
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TumblrPoligraf · The Artistic ImpulseThat man is great, and he alone,
Who serves a greatness not his own,
For neither praise nor pelf:
Content to know and be unknown:
Whole in himself.
— Robert Bulwer-Lytton
« True greatness does not consist so much in doing extraordinary things, as in conducting ordinary affairs with a noble demeanor and from a right motive. »
― Elias Lyman Magoon
· https://poligraf.tumblr.com/post/746602952432746496/true-greatness-does-not-consist-so-much-in-doing
TumblrPoligraf · The Artistic ImpulseTrue greatness does not consist so much in doing extraordinary things, as in conducting ordinary affairs with a noble demeanor and from a right motive.
— Elias Lyman Magoon
« Nature never sends a great man into the planet, without confiding the secret to another soul. »
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
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TumblrPoligraf · The Artistic ImpulseNature never sends a great man into the planet, without confiding the secret to another soul.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson