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greatness distinction expenses
William Gilmore Simms Distinction is an eminence that is attained but too frequently at the expense of a fireside.
greatness magic genius
Robert Ringer The bolder the action, the greater the genius, magic and power that is likely to flow from it.
greatness healthy arrogance
Saint Augustine The arrogance is not greatness but swelling; and the swelling seems big but it's not healthy.
greatness thinking opposites
Will Self The British and American literary worlds operate in an odd kind of symbiosis: our critics think our contemporary novelists are not the stuff of greatness whereas certain contemporary Americans indubitably are. Their critics often advance the exact opposite: British fiction is cool, American naff.
greatness saving-money ifs
W. Clement Stone If you cannot save money, the seeds of greatness are not in you.
greatness rumor use
W. C. Fields I note the derogatory rumors concerning the use of alcoholic stimulants and lavish living. It is the penalty of greatness.
greatness men tao
Zhuangzi One whose inner being is fixed upon such greatness emits a Heavenly glow. Even though he has this Heavenly glow, others will see him as just a man. Someone who has reached this point will begin to be consistent.
greatness achievement black-history
Yvette Clarke We must never forget that Black History is American History. The achievements of African Americans have contributed to our nation's greatness.
essence cooperation linked
William Feather Getting along with others is the essence of getting ahead, success being linked with cooperation.
essence ideas quality
Russell Baker The old notion that brevity is the essence of wit has succumbed to the modern idea that tedium is the essence of quality.
essence voice mind
Rodney Carrington If I do the same act that I did in 1995, in essence you're saying (in a robotic voice), 'My mind has never changed'
essence scripts credit
Rod Serling I would guess that the price of the script really is secondary. The credit is much more the essence.
essence transcendentalism divorced
Willard Van Orman Quine Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word.
essence giving spices
William Arthur Ward The essence of life is to care. The beauty of life is to give.
essence world prejudice
William Hazlitt Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world.
essence hip-hop community
Wyclef Jean No matter how far you go, if you can't go back to the essence, you're not sayin' nothin'. The essence for me is hip-hop. But the hip-hop community I came up in isn't a loyal community.
essence melody
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Melody is the essence of music.
poetry published volume wrote
Tony Buzan In 1971, when I was 29, I wrote my first volume of poetry. I am a poet, and I have published four books of my poems.
poetry despair born
Jose Bergamin The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair.
poetry lines serious
Jonathan Swift From not the gravest of Divines, Accept for once some serious Lines.
poetry has-beens
Henry David Thoreau My life has been the poem I would have writ, But I could not both live and utter it.
poetry mastery logic
James Russell Lowell It ["The Ancient Mariner"] is marvellous in its mastery over that delightfully fortuitous inconsequence that is the adamantine logic of dreamland.
poetry would-be world
Muriel Rukeyser If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger.
poetry poetic breathe
Muriel Rukeyser Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.
poetry letters jest
Ovid I have never injured anybody with a mordant poem; my verse contains charges against nobody. Ingenuous, I have shunned wit steeped in venom--not a letter of mine is dipped in poisonous jest.
poetry phrases meter
Nikki Giovanni ever been kidnapped by a poet if i were a poet i'd kidnap you put you in my phrases and meter....