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Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.
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Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.
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Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.
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A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.
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Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.