A great mind is one that can forget or look beyond itself.
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Like a rustic at a fair, we are full of amazement and rapture, and have no thought of going home, or that it will soon be night.William Hazlitt
He is to the great poet, what an excellent mimic is to a great actor. There is no determinate impression left on the mind by reading his poetry. . . . A great mind is one that moulds the minds of others.
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A hair in the head is worth two in the brush.
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He who comes up to his own idea of greatness must always have had a very low standard of it in mind.
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No truly great man ever thought himself so.
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Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.
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