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{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = But the grandsire's chair is empty, The cottage is dark and still; There's a nameless grave on the battle-field, And a new one under the hill. Wm. Winter—After All. ... In shepherd's phrase With one foot in the grave. Wordsworth—Michael. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Erasmus) GREATNESS Burn to be great, Pay not thy praise to lofty things alone. The plains are everlasting as the hills, The bard cannot have two pursuits; aught else Comes on the mind with the like shock as though Two worlds had gone to war, and met in air. Bailey—Festus. Sc. Home. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 340 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Nothing can cover his high fame but heaven; No pyramids set off his memories, But the eternal substance of his greatness,— To which I leave him. | author = Beaumont and Fletcher | work = The False One. | place = Act II. Sc. 1. | note = | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Man's Unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his Greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite. Carlyle—Sartor Resartus. The Everlasting Yea. Bk. II. Ch. IX. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 340 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = We have not the love of greatness, but the love of the love of greatness. Carlyle—Essays. Characteristics. Vol. III. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 340 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Nemo vir magnus aliquo afflatu divino unquam fuit. No man was ever great without divine inspiration. Cicero—De Natura Deorum. II. 66. The great man who thinks greatly of himself, is not diminishing that greatness in heaping fuel on his fire. Isaac D'Israeli—Literary Character of Men of Genius. Ch. XV. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 15 | text = So let his name through Europe ring! A man of mean estate, Who died as firm as Sparta's king, Because his soul was great. Sir Francis Hastings Doyle—The Private of the Buffs. No great deed is done By falterers who ask for certainty. George Eliot—The Spanish Gypsy. Bk. I. 56th line from end. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 340 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = He is great who is what he is from Nature, and who never reminds us of others. Emerson—Essays. Second Series. Uses of Great Men. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 340 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Nature never sends a great man into the planet, without confiding the secret to another soul. Emerson—Uses of Great Men. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 340 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = He who comes up to bis own idea of greatness, must always have had a very low standard of it in his mind. Hazlitt—Table Talk. Whether Genius is Conscious of its own Power. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 340 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = No really great man ever thought himself so. Hazlitt—Table Talk. Whether Genius is Conscious of its own Power. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 340 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Ajax the great * * * Himself a host. Homer—Iliad. Bk. III. L. 293 | note = {{sc|Pope}}'s trans. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 340 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = For he that once is good, is ever great. Ben Jonson—The Forest. To Lady Aubigny. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 340 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Urit enim fulgore suo qui pnegravat artes Intra se positas; extinctus amabitur idem. That man scorches with bis brightness, who overpowers inferior capacities, yet he shall be revered when dead. Horace—Epistles. II. 1. 13. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 340 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Greatnesse on goodnesse loves to slide, not stand, And leaves, for fortune's ice, vertue's firme land. Richard Knolles—Turkish History. Under a portrait of Mustapha I. L. 13. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Dryden}} under {{sc|Ambition}}) | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Great is advertisement! 'tis almost fate; But, little mushroom-men, of puff-ball fame. Ah, do you dream to be mistaken great And to be really great are just the same? Richard Le Galltenne—Alfred Tennyson. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 340 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = II n'appartient qu'aux grands hommes d'avoir de grands d&auts. It is the prerogative of great men only to have great defects. La Rochefoucauld—Maximes. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 340 }}