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The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.
Mark Twain

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Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Robert Kennedy

Fail, Achieve, Dare

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Trust, Great, Men

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.
John F. Kennedy

Fail, Achieve, Dare

The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility.
Thomas S. Monson

Courage, Humility, Living

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.
Henry David Thoreau

Men, Respect, Learning

Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.
Anais Nin

Life, Dreams, Together

Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Men, Done, Cannot

He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.
James Allen

Sacrifice, Achieve, Accomplish

Clothes and manners do not make the man; but, when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.
Henry Ward Beecher

Made, Manners, Clothes

If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Often, Company, Loss

However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Truth, Else, Tell

Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
Karl Marx

Doubt, Number, Machinery

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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.
Homer

Thought, Dared, Nobly

A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Good, Others, Put

Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.
Samuel Johnson

Happiness, Equality, Human

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Time, May, Thought

It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Health, Care, Moral

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.
Plutarch

Great, Deeds, Aim

Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.
James Russell Lowell

Time, Failure, Though

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Great, Calling, Pursued

War contributes greatly to global warming, which shouldn't surprise us. All those bombs going off, all those rockets, all those planes and helicopters. All that fuel of various kinds being used. It pollutes the air and water of this very fragile and interconnected planet.
Alice Walker

The rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated.
Paul McCartney

I am greatly misunderstood by politically correct idiots.
Brigitte Bardot

Idiots, Correct

And I would be the first to admit that probably, in a lot of press conferences over the time that I have been in coaching, indulging my own sense of humor at press conferences has not been greatly to my benefit.
Bobby Knight

Humor, Time, Sense

So reports of my madness, as they say, were greatly exaggerated. Not that I give a bugger either way.
David Icke

Give, Either, Madness

If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it.
Brendan Francis

Everything, Desire, Guts

Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.
Arthur Ashe

Made, Manners, Clothes

I feel greatly honored to have a ballpark named after me, especially since I've been thrown out of so many.
Casey Stengel

After, Since, Thrown

I've spent a bit of time with the Prince of Wales, who I respect greatly. I'd give two cheers for the Monarchy.
Sting

Time, Respect, Give

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