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No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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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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In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

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There would be no great men if there were no little ones. ↗

— George Herbert

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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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The mechanical and social achievements of our day must not blind our eyes to the fact that, in all that relates to man, his nature and aspirations, we have added little or nothing to what has been so finely said by the great men of old. ↗

— James Loeb

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Great men are usually the products of their times and one of the men developed by these times takes rank with the greatest railroad leaders in history. ↗

— John Moody

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The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck. ↗

— Channing Pollock

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Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them. ↗

— William Shakespeare

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