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Your love for God is only as great as the love you have for the person you love the least. — Dorothy Day

Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons. — John Ruskin

The second great product of industry should be the rewarding life for every person — Edwin Land

Like the air-invested heron, great persons should conduct themselves; and the higher they be, the less they should show. — Philip Sidney

Great persons are able to do great kindnesses. — Miguel De Cervantes

Nothing so upholds the laws as the punishment of persons whose rank is as great as their crime. — Cardinal Richelieu

I have known great things and wonderful persons, and I have known homage. — Lillie Langtry

We are here to spend ourselves on others; for each person is a great treasure. — Bryant H. McGill

One great difference between the persons of real life and the persons of fiction is that the persons of real life are creatures of impulse. — W. Somerset Maugham

Great persons, like great empires, leave their mark on history. — Janet Wallach

I admire personalities. Some politicians who are only great mice are just persons. — Milos Zeman

Persons who have a painful affection in any part of the body, and are in a great measure sensible of the pain, are disordered in intellect. — Hippocrates

Art is incredibly subjective. What is great art to one person isn't necessarily to another. — Sara Blecher

I cannot truly imagine a truly great person who hasn't suffered. — Fyodor Dostoevsky

I think I have a great sense of me as a person. — Chamique Holdsclaw

The two Great Unknowns, the two Illustrious Conjecturabilities! They are the best known unknown persons that have ever drawn breath upon the planet. — Mark Twain

To be able to live peaceably with hard and perverse persons, or with the disorderly, or with such as go contrary to us, is a great grace. — Thomas A Kempis

Great numbers of persons have no concern about eternal things. They care more about their cats and dogs than about their souls. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Like every person, every thought has the potential to become something great. — John C. Maxwell

Maybe the gift of any great person is the power to converse with our own hearts. — Randall Wallace

Nervous and excitable persons need to talk a great deal, by way of letting off their steam. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

Power is a great aphrodisiac and I am a very powerful person — Madonna Ciccone

Persons are judged to be great because of the positive qualities they possess, not because of the absence of faults. — John F. Kennedy

Whether I'm down or whether things are great, I try to stay the same person all the time. — Torii Hunter

Great persons are great because of good, strong foundations on which they were able to build a character ... — Alfred Armand Montapert

All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space. — Philip Johnson

I am told that our chroniclers' practice of inventing speeches for great persons whose lives they write is unscholarly. — Poul Anderson

Every great person educates themselves. — Nas

Then climate is a great impediment to idle persons; we often resolve to give up the care of the weather, but still we regard the clouds and the rain. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons laboring under ill-health. — Samuel Richardson

Males lack the seriousness of temperament required of persons with such great responsibilities. — Ransom Riggs

Our values define who we're. Never met great persons who kept compromising their values. Let's go beyond lip service to defend our values... — Assegid Habtewold

If two or three persons should come with a high spiritual aim and with great powers, the world would fall into their hands like a ripe peach. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Honor is due to God and to persons of great excellence as a sign of attestation of excellence already existing; not that honor makes them excellent. — Thomas Aquinas

Excuses are the tools with which persons with no purpose in view build for themselves great monuments of nothing. — Steven Grayhm

God rarely allows a person to see how great a blessing he is to others. — Oswald Chambers

The glory of a nation and an age is always the work of a few great persons, and it disappears with them. — Friedrich Melchior, Baron Von Grimm

A great many persons are able to become Members of this House without losing their insignificance. — Beverley Baxter