Quote by Phillips Brooks
No one who has come to true greatness has not felt in some degree

No one who has come to true greatness has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to the people, and what God has given them he gives it for mankind. – Phillips Brooks

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The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is. – Phillips Brooks

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Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing – where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger which he knows he was meant and made to do. – Phillips Brooks

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The dullards envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end. – Max Beerbohm

Sighing that Nature formed but one such man, and broke the die. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

Great people are meteors designed to burn so that the earth may be lighted. – Napoleon Bonaparte

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We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend. – Robert Louis Stevenson

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So long as I can stay mentally alert – inquiring, curious – I want to keep going. I love my wife and my children, but I dont want to sit around at home with them. We go on safaris and things like that. I can do that for a couple of weeks a year. Im just not ready to stop, to die. – Rupert Murdoch

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By playing games you can artificially speed up your learning curve to develop the right kind of thought processes. – Nate Silver

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It is in the mind and the heart where we meet. Its not the body-the body will change. – Amber Valletta

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