#great men

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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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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Lives of great men oft remind us as we o'er their pages turn, That we too may leave behind us - Letters that we ought to burn. ↗

— Thomas Hood

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Obama likes to quote great men but will never be a great man himself. I can't stand it when our leader goes around apologizing for who we are. ↗

— Joe Wurzelbacher

#around #goes #great #great man #great men

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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Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much. ↗

— Walter Savage Landor

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Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events. ↗

— John Drinkwater

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Traditionally the great men of our country have sprung from poor environments; that being so, it would appear we have long suffered from a severe lack of poverty. ↗

— Gerald F. Lieberman

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