“ GreatnessHe is greatest who is most often in men’s good thoughts. ”
Samuel Butler, The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912). copy citation
| Author | Samuel Butler |
|---|---|
| Source | The Note-Books of Samuel Butler |
| Topic | thoughts good |
| Date | 1912 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/6173/6173-h/6173-h.htm |
Context
“The merest spark may set all Europe in a blaze, but though all Europe be set in a blaze twenty times over, the world will wag itself right again.
Dumb-Bells
I regard them with suspicion as academic.
Purgatory
Time is the only true purgatory.
Greatness
He is greatest who is most often in men’s good thoughts.
The Vanity of Human Wishes
There is only one thing vainer and that is the having no wishes.
Jones’s Conscience
He said he had not much conscience, and what little he had was guilty.
Nihilism
The Nihilists do not believe in nothing;”
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