"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."
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"Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.“
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