#great men

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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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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It does not take great men to do great things; it only takes consecrated men. ↗

— Phillips Brooks

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

— Thomas W. Higginson

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I think my best work has been in France with great men. It's been my great fortune to work with really great men - with Olivier Assayas, Raoul Ruiz, Jacques Rivette. I am tutored by them. ↗

— Emmanuelle Beart

#been #best #best work #fortune #france

The first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishing the ways to tell a story. And what is happening now is a copying, a pastiche-ing of what was done by great men. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#cinema #copying #done #establishing #first