Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources. Rev. James Wood
10 of speech, a great degree of kindness and the appearance of awe, are always tokens of a man's attachment. Hitopadesa.
Great barkers are nae biters. Sc. Pr.
Great boast, small roast. Pr.
Great books are written for Christianity much oftener than great deeds are done for it. H. Mann.
Great causes are never tried on their merits; but the cause is reduced to particulars to suit the size of the partisans, and the contention is ever hottest on minor matters. Emerson.
Great countries are those that produce great 15 men. Disraeli.
Great cowardice is hidden by a bluster of daring. Lucan.
Great cry but little wool, as the devil said when he shear'd his hogs. Pr.
Great deeds cannot die; / They with the sun and moon renew their light, / For ever blessing those that look on them. Tennyson.
Great deeds immortal are—they cannot die, / Unscathed by envious blight or withering frost, / They live, and bud, and bloom; and men partake / Still of their freshness, and are strong thereby. Aytoun.
Great dejection often follows great enthusiasm. 20 Joseph Roux.
Great edifices, like great mountains, are the work of ages. Victor Hugo.
Great endowments often announce themselves in youth in the form of singularity and awkwardness. Goethe.
Great, ever fruitful; profitable for reproof, for encouragement, for building up in manful purposes and works, are the words of those that in their day were men. Carlyle.
Great evils one triumphs over bravely, but the little eat away one's heart. Mrs. Carlyle.
Great fleas have little fleas / Upon their backs 25 to bite 'em; / And little fleas have lesser fleas, / And so ad infinitum. Lowell.
Great folks have five hundred friends because they have no occasion for them. Goldsmith.
Great fools have great bells. Dut. Pr.
Great genial power consists in being altogether receptive. Emerson.
Great geniuses have always the shortest biographies. Emerson.
Great gifts are for great men. Pr. 30
Great God, I had rather be / A Pagan suckled in some creed outworn; / So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, / Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn. Wordsworth.
Great grief makes those sacred upon whom its hand is laid. Joy may elevate, ambition glorify, but sorrow alone can consecrate. H. Greeley.
Great griefs medicine the less. Cymbeline, iv. 2.
Great haste makes great waste. Ben. Franklin.
Great honours are great burdens; but on 35 whom / They're cast with envy, he doth bear two loads. Ben Jonson.
Great joy is only earned by great exertion. Goethe.
Great is he who enjoys his earthenware as if it were plate, and not less great the man to whom all his plate is no more than earthenware. Sen.
Great is not great to the greater. Sir P. Sidney.
Great is self-denial! Life goes all to ravels and tatters where that enters not. Carlyle.
Great is song used to great ends. Tennyson. 40
Great is the soul, and plain. It is no flatterer, it is no follower; it never appeals from itself. Emerson.
Great is the strength of an individual soul true to its high trust; mighty is it, even to the redemption of a world. Mrs. Child.
Great is truth, and mighty above all things. Apocrypha.
Great is wisdom; infinite is the value of wisdom. It cannot be exaggerated; it is the highest achievement of man. Carlyle.
Great joy, especially after a sudden change 45 and revolution of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue. Fielding.
Great knowledge, if it be without vanity, is the most severe bridle of the tongue. Jeremy Taylor.
Great lies are as great as great truths, and prevail constantly and day after day. Thackeray.
Great lords have great hands, but they do not reach to heaven. Dan. Pr.
Great Mammon!—greatest god below the sky. Spenser.
Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy. Arist.
Great men are among the best gifts which God bestows upon a people. G. S. Hillard.
Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude. Schopenhauer.
Great men are more distinguished by range and extent than by originality. Emerson.
Great men are never sufficiently known but in 5 struggles. Burke.
Great men are not always wise. Bible.
Great men are rarely isolated mountain-peaks; they are the summits of ranges. T. W. Higginson.
Great men are sincere. Emerson.
Great men are the fire-pillars in this dark pilgrimage of mankind; they stand as heavenly signs, ever-living witnesses of what has been, prophetic tokens of what may still be, the revealed, embodied possibilities of human nature. Carlyle.
Great Men are the inspired (speaking and 10 acting) Texts of that Divine Book of Revelations, whereof a Chapter is completed from epoch to epoch, and by some named History. Carlyle.
Great men are the modellers, patterns, and in a wide sense creators, of whatsoever the general mass of men contrived to do and attain. Carlyle.
Great men are the true men, the men in whom Nature has succeeded. Amiel.
Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world. Emerson.
Great men do not content us. It is their solitude, not their force, that makes them conspicuous. Emerson.
Great men do not play stage tricks with the 15 doctrines of life and death; only little men do that. Ruskin.
Great men essay enterprises because they think them great, and fools because they think them easy. Vauvenargues.
Great men get more by obliging inferiors than by disdaining them. South.
Great men, great nations have ever been perceivers of the terror of life, and have manned themselves to face it. Emerson.
Great men have their parasites. Sydney Smith.
Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by 20 being