"A great man will find a great..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
A great man will find a great subject, or which is the same thing, make any subject great.
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“Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out of traveling and voting and watching and caring; out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.”
“I hate the prostitution of the name of friendship to signify modish and worldly alliances.”
“The secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and likeness.”
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“All nobility in its beginnings was somebody's natural superiority.”
“All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.”
“We are very near to greatness: one step and we are safe; can we not take the leap?”