#great men

Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so. ↗

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

Good sense travels on the well-worn paths; genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics. ↗

— Cesare Lombroso

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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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Whether the prayer of Seneca was granted we do not know; but, as we do not again hear of Marcus, it is probable that he died before his father, and that the line of Seneca, like that of so many great men, became extinct in the second generation. ↗

— Frederic William Farrar

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The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead. ↗

— Jules Renard

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Great men of action... never mind on occasion being ridiculous; in a sense it is part of their job, and at times they all are. ↗

— Oswald Mosley

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Gutenberg and Richter were very great men. ↗

— Frank Press

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