“With the great quality of egoism, great deeds and great merits became extinct.”
Source: The Revival of Aristocracy (1906), p. 39.
Source: Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging
“With the great quality of egoism, great deeds and great merits became extinct.”
Source: The Revival of Aristocracy (1906), p. 39.
“Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.”
"Whether Genius is Conscious of its Powers?"
The Plain Speaker (1826)
“A man is great by deeds, not by birth.”
“Only great souls know the grandeur there is in charity.”
Quoted in Quote Unquote : A Handbook of Quotations (2007) by M. P. Singh, p. 96
“It was a great deed to conquer Carthage, but a greater deed to conquer death.”
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter XXIV: On despising death
“Great truths are portions of the soul of man;
Great souls are portions of eternity.”
Sonnet VI
Sonnets (1844)