Today Quotes
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No man is truly great, who is great only in his life-time. The test of greatness is the page of history.William Hazlitt, on the Pleasure of Hating
The journey of a thousand leagues begins from beneath your feet.Lao-Tzu
Popularity is neither fame nor greatness.William Hazlitt, on the Pleasure of Hating
A King (as such) is not a great man. He has great power, but it is not his own.William Hazlitt, on the Pleasure of Hating
To display the greatest powers, unless they are applied to great purposes, makes nothing for the character of greatness.William Hazlitt, on the Pleasure of Hating
To impress the idea of power on others, they must be made in some way to feel it.William Hazlitt
A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it.William Hazlitt, on the Pleasure of Hating
No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness.William Hazlitt, on the Pleasure of Hating
A really great man has always an idea of something greater than himself.William Hazlitt, on the Pleasure of Hating
...greatness sympathises with greatness, and littleness shrinks into itself.William Hazlitt, on the Pleasure of Hating