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greatness men mind
Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds. Charles Caleb Colton
greatness deserving-it mind
Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. If it follow them it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it.
greatness men
In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.
greatness men too-much
Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants--both know too much of him.
great-expectations secret tears
The secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and become a part of myself, that I could not tear it away. Charles Dickens
great-expectations strange melancholy
So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us!...
great-expectations may done
But, in this separation I associate you only with the good and I will faithfully hold you to that always, for you have done far more good than harm, let me feel now what sharp distress I may.
great-expectations may let-me
Let me feel now what sharp distress I may.
greatness excellence littles
True greatness consists in being great in little things. Charles Simmons
irish-dramatist man soon
A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drowned, he said, for he will be going out on a day he shouldn't. But we do be afraid of the sea, and we do only be drownded now and again. John Millington Synge
irish-dramatist life taken
Life is too important to be taken seriously. Oscar Wilde
irish loved parents played pubs songs special weekend written
She used to play every weekend in pubs with Daddy, and she'd written all these Irish songs out in a book. They're songs we've loved over the years, and because our parents played them in their band, they're very special to us. Andrea Corr
irish-dramatist
One drink is too many for me and a thousand not enough. Brendan Behan
irish-poet learning
Writing is learning to say nothing, more cleverly each day. William Allingham
irish-dramatist life
One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.
irish-poet men rich rule
Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law. Oliver Goldsmith
irish-poet
It is a poor cause which has to be lied for regularly. Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
irish-poet lies-and-lying science
The insidiousness of science lies in its claim to be not a subject, but a method.