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Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.


Arthur Schopenhauer


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I jump out of perfectly good airplanes, and it's a great thrill and it allows me to share in the dangers that our great men and women in uniform share in on a regular basis.


Hugh Shelton


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They've all been through bad things. So bad things happen to people. They happen to all the great men of God.


Jim Bakker


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It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.


William Ellery Channing


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


Thomas Wentworth Higginson


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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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