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Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

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All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know. ↗

— Alexis Carrel

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Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength that matters for their work. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

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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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Great men always pay deference to greater. ↗

— Walter Savage Landor

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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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Gutenberg and Richter were very great men. ↗

— Frank Press

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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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