Israel Meir Kagan quotes

“The sign of a great man is that the closer you get, the greater he seems.”
-- Israel Meir Kagan

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“The world says that time is money, but I say that money is time. In order to earn enough money to satisfy his desires, one must sacrifice inordinate amounts of time. For me, that sacrifice is too great.”
-- Israel Meir Kagan

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“Darkness is not chased away with sticks, not even cannons. One simply lights a small candle and the darkness flees before it.”
-- Israel Meir Kagan

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“Therefore, it is forbidden to say anything to anyone that might cause animosity between any two people.”
-- Israel Meir Kagan

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“No great thought, no great object, satisfies the mind at first view, nor at the last.”

Source : Abel Stevens (1881). “Madame de Staël, a Study of Her Life and Times: The First Revolution and the First Empire”

“A prophet's true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.”

“She died chasing greatness and never saw it each time it was in her hand, so she kept seeking it elsewhere, but never understood the work required to get it or to keep it.”

“The greatness of the Raiders lies in their future.”

“We always knew how to honor fallen soldiers. They were killed for our sake, they went out on our mission. But how are we to mourn a random man killed in a terrorist attack while sitting in a cafe? How do you mourn a housewife who got on a bus and never returned?”

“Men have presented their plans and philosophies for the remedying of earth's ills, but Jesus stands alone in presenting not a system, but His own personality as capable of supplying the needs of the soul.”

“Therefore, since the world has still Much good, but much less good than ill, And while the sun and moon endure Luck's a chance, but trouble's sure, I'd face it as a wise man would, And train for ill and not for good.”

Source : A. E. Housman (2012). “A Shropshire Lad”, p.43, Courier Corporation

“A great many of us have confused change with progress.”

“Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.”

“Nations, like families, have great men only in spite of themselves.”