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The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
Purpose
William James

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We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.
Death and Dying
Joseph Jefferson

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Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
Innovation
Thomas Jefferson

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I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.
Luck
Thomas Jefferson

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I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.
Mind
Bruce Jenner

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The true sound and strong mind is the one that can embrace equally great and small things.
Mind
Johnson

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There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
Hell
Ben Johnson

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Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great?
Risk
Jimmy Johnson

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A am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.
Entertainment
Samuel Johnson

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Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
Curiosity
Samuel Johnson

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Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance.
Perseverance
Samuel Johnson

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He was dull in a new way, and that made many think him great.
Greatness
Samuel Johnson

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He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do anything.
Charity
Samuel Johnson

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I am a great friend to public amusements, for they keep the people from vice.
Humor
Samuel Johnson

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No man was ever great by imitation.
Imitation
Samuel Johnson

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No one ever became great by imitation.
Greatness
Samuel Johnson

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Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
Confidence
Samuel Johnson

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The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.
Approval
Samuel Johnson

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The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.
Greatness
Samuel Johnson

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We grow small trying to be great.
Ambition
Eli Stanley Jones

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There is no great future for any people whose faith has burned out.
Faith
Rufus M. Jones

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Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
Labor
Joseph Joubert

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A collection of a hundred Great brains makes one big fathead.
Committees and Meetings
Carl Jung

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Every great house is full of haughty servants.
Servants
(Decimus Junius Juvenalis) Juvenal

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How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
Age and Aging
(Decimus Junius Juvenalis) Juvenal

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun