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He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame a passion which is the instinct of all great souls. – Edmund Burke

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Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all. – Edmund Burke

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There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true. – Niels Bohr

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If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way. – Napoleon Hill

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Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly. – Plato

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The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life. – Anna Letitia Barbauld

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