#great men

Even the best intentioned of great men need a few scoundrels around them; there are some things you cannot ask an honest ma to do. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

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It does not take great men to do great things; it only takes consecrated men. ↗

— Phillips Brooks

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No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

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In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

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Few great men would have got past personnel. ↗

— Paul Goodman

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There would be no great men if there were no little ones. ↗

— George Herbert

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Great men are rarely isolated mountain peaks; they are the summits of ranges. ↗

— Thomas W. Higginson

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The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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