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There is sometimes a greater judgement shewn in deviating from the rules of art, than in adhering to them; andthere ismore beauty inthe works of a great genius who is ignorant of all the rules of art, than in the works of a little genius, who not only knows but scrupulously observes them.
Great men are not always wise: neither do the aged understand judgment.
It is of the L mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. Theyare new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.
Even so thetongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!
What millions diedöthat Caesar might be great!
There isa great manwhomakes every manfeelsmall.But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
He prayeth well, who loveth well Both man and bird and beast. He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small.
Nothing great will ever be achieved without great menöand men only become great if they are determined to be so.
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions.
Shakespearewas the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul. All images of Nature were still present to him, and he drew them, not laboriously, but luckily; when he describes anything, you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation: he was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of books to read Nature; he looked inwards, and found her there He is many times flat, insipid; his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great.
Here lies, bowl'd out by Death's unerring ball, A cricketer renowned, by name John Small; But though his name was small, yet great was his fame, For nobly did he play the'noble game'. His life was like his inningsölong and good; Full ninety summers had Death withstood, At length the ninetieth winter cameöwhen (Fate Not leaving him one solitary mate) This last of Hambledonians, old John Small, Gave up his bat and ballöhis leather, wax and all.
When I meet a historian who cannot think that there have been great men, great men moreover in politics, I feel myself in the presence of a bad historian; and there are times when I incline to judge all historians by their opinion of Winston Churchillöwhether they can see that, no matter how much better the details, often damaging, of man and career become known, he still remains, quite simply, a great man.
To be great is to be misunderstood.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
It was not the matter of the work, but the mind that went into, that countedöand the manwho was not content to do small things well would leave great things undone.
How low, how little are the proud, How indigent the great!
Beyond the limits of a vulgar fate, Beneath the good how faröbut far above the great.
For every good art critic there may be ten great artists.
The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholarsgreat men.
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Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations Copyright © 2005 by Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved. Published by Wiley, Hoboken, NJ. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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