#great men

I've also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable, because they have built such high standards for themselves that they often feel alone. But that same loneliness is part of their ability to create. ↗

— Yousuf Karsh

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If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity. ↗

— Yousuf Karsh

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The great men of power who seek to change the nations they belong to usually are pretty terrible people. ↗

— John Keegan

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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper. ↗

— E. M. Forster

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It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations. ↗

— Charles Dickens

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Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time. ↗

— Sydney Smith

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An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

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The great men of a nation reach out to all mankind. They are unifying, not divisive; internationally conciliating and still great nationally. ↗