Pride is founded not on the sense of happiness, but on the sense of power.
William HazlittRead
No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.
Interpretation
True greatness is recognized over time, not merely during one's life.
This quote by William Hazlitt suggests that real greatness is not determined by someone's achievements or recognition in their lifetime, but rather by how history remembers them. It emphasizes the idea that lasting impact and legacy are the true measures of greatness, as opposed to fleeting fame or success that may not endure beyond an individual's lifespan.
In practice
In a graduation speech to inspire students to think beyond their immediate goals.
Pride is founded not on the sense of happiness, but on the sense of power.
The world loves to be amused by hollow professions, to be deceived by flattering appearances, to live in a state of hallucination; and can forgive everything but the plain, downright, simple, honest truth.
Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.
We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit.
There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please, that is, as they please or displease us.
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.
I found myself thinking about President William McKinley, the third American president to be assassinated. He lived for several days after he was shot, and towards the end, his wife started crying and screaming, "I want to go too! I want to go too!" And with his last measure of strength, McKinley turned to her and spoke his last words: "We are all going.
We remain more than a collection of red states and blue states. We are and forever will be the United States of America.
Books about spies and traitors - and the congressional hearings that follow the exposure of traitors - generally assume that false-negative errors are much worse than false-positive errors.
Genocide, after all, is an exercise in community building.
I'm trying to illuminate how perilously narrow we draw the concepts of masculinity and sexuality in our male culture - particularly in black male culture - and to help people to see that there's room enough for everyone.
You cannot be at home with something that you feel that is wrong, is not right.
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