#great men

Walking is the natural recreation for a man who desires not absolutely to suppress his intellect but to turn it out to play for a season. All great men of letters have therefore been enthusiastic walkers. ↗

— Leslie Stephen

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It's rather splendid to think of all those great men and women who appear to have presented symptoms that allow us to describe them as bipolar. Whether it's Hemingway, Van Gogh... Robert Schumann has been mentioned... Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath... some of them with rather grim ends. ↗

— Stephen Fry

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Great hopes make great men. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

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Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight but, while their companions slept, they were toiling upward in the night. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Great men are usually the products of their times and one of the men developed by these times takes rank with the greatest railroad leaders in history. ↗

— John Moody

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The first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishing the ways to tell a story. And what is happening now is a copying, a pastiche-ing of what was done by great men. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#cinema #copying #done #establishing #first

The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck. ↗

— Channing Pollock

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Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them. ↗

— William Shakespeare

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There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#flattered #great #great men #loved #many