quote · Legacy record
No man has come to true greatness who has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to his race, and that what God gives him, He gives him for mankind.
No man has come to true greatness who has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to his race, and that what God gives him, He gives him for mankind.
In print by 1896 AD · industrial
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- Phillips Brooks (identity unresolved)
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- In print by 1896 AD · industrial
In print by 1896: recorded in Many Thoughts of Many Minds (1896). Collection publication is an upper bound for this wording, not its earliest origin, composition date or the author's lifetime.
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- Many Thoughts of Many Minds (1896) (1896 AD)
Greatness · anthology attribution: Phillips Brooks
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