#great men

I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper. ↗

— E. M. Forster

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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

#great men #lift #live #men #people

The great men of a nation reach out to all mankind. They are unifying, not divisive; internationally conciliating and still great nationally. ↗

— Gustav Stresemann

#divisive #great #great men #internationally #mankind

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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Few great men would have got past personnel. ↗

— Paul Goodman

#got #great #great men #men #past

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

#appear #been #bipolar #describe #ends

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

#added #aspirations #been #blind #day