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A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.
Sydney Smith on great

Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.
Lewis Carroll on great

I love to shop after a bad relationship. I don't know. I buy a new outfit and it makes me feel better. It just does. Sometimes I see a really great outfit, I'll break up with someone on purpose.
Rita Rudner on great

The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is that most things get better by themselves most things, in fact, are better in the morning.
Lewis Thomas on great

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
Thomas Huxley on great

After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.
Emily Dickinson on great

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.
George Eliot on great

The last great delusion is soon to open before us. Antichrist is to perform his marvelous works in our sight So closely will the counterfeit resemble the true that it will be impossible to distinguish between them except by the Holy Scriptures.
Ellen G. White on great

Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy of society, and as I stood among them, a young wife, a great wail of agony went out from my soul.
Victoria Woodhull on great

Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.
Marcus Tullius Cicero on great

A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.
Louis Kahn on great

It will be a great day when our schools have all the money they need, and our air force has to have a bake-sale to buy a bomber.
Robert Fulghum on great

There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.
William Barclay on great

To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld on great

Nothing is so contagious as example and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld on great

As a child I was a great liar. Fortunately my mother liked my lies. I promised her marvelous things.
Gunter Grass on great

We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld on great

That's the great thing about a tractor. You can't really hear the phone ring.
Jeff Foxworthy on great

Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld on great

The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.
Frederic Bastiat on great