#great man

Mention Hubert Sumlin, as well, because Hubert's a great man, and again, you know, I don't play the guitar very good, but when I'm playing this kind of music, I always have him in my mind. I wish I could play like Hubert. ↗

— Elvis Costello

#always #because #could #good #great

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

#brings #denied #every #except #grateful

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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Joe Jackson is a great man. The problem that people have with my father is that he tells it like it is. He's just straight up and doesn't beat around the bush. Tough love. ↗

— Tito Jackson

#beat #bush #father #great #great man

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit. ↗

— W. Clement Stone

#benefit #endeavor #equivalent #every #field

It's awfully hard to be the son of a great man and also of a half-crazy woman. ↗

— Henry Steele Commager

#awfully #great #great man #hard #man

Sooner will a camel pass through a needle's eye than a great man be "discovered" by an election. ↗

— Adolf Hitler

#discovered #election #eye #great #great man