Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

Great is he who enjoys his earthenware as if it were plate, and not less great the man to whom all his plate is no more than earthenware. Sen.

Great is not great to the greater. Sir P. Sidney.

Great is self-denial! Life goes all to ravels and tatters where that enters not. Carlyle.

Great is song used to great ends. Tennyson. 40

Great is the soul, and plain. It is no flatterer, it is no follower; it never appeals from itself. Emerson.

Great is the strength of an individual soul true to its high trust; mighty is it, even to the redemption of a world. Mrs. Child.

Great is truth, and mighty above all things. Apocrypha.

Great is wisdom; infinite is the value of wisdom. It cannot be exaggerated; it is the highest achievement of man. Carlyle.

Great joy, especially after a sudden change 45 and revolution of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue. Fielding.

Great knowledge, if it be without vanity, is the most severe bridle of the tongue. Jeremy Taylor.