#great man

It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously. ↗

— Logan P. Smith

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There was never a great man who had not a great mother. ↗

— Olive Schreiner

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The Jewish people asked nothing of its sons except not to be denied. The world is grateful to every great man when he brings it something; only the paternal home thanks the son who brings nothing but himself. ↗

— Theodor Herzl

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The banalities of a great man pass for wit. ↗

— Alexander Chase

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There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

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It is those who concentrates on but one thing at a time who advance in this world. The great man or woman is the one who never steps outside his or her specialty or foolishly dissipates his or her individuality. ↗

— Og Mandino

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Maybe I'm not a great man but I damn well want to break the record. ↗

— Roger Maris

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Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events. ↗

— John Drinkwater

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