#great man

Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit. ↗

— W. Clement Stone

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To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it. ↗

— Homer

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There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#century #great #great man #great thing #let us

Mr. James Joyce is a great man who is entirely without taste. ↗

— Rebecca West

#great #great man #james #james joyce #joyce

It's awfully hard to be the son of a great man and also of a half-crazy woman. ↗

— Henry Steele Commager

#awfully #great #great man #hard #man

Duty is for Kant the One and All. Out of the duty of gratitude, he claims, one has to defend and esteem the ancients; and only out of duty has he become a great man. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#claims #defend #duty #esteem #gratitude

There was never a great man who had not a great mother. ↗

— Olive Schreiner

#great man #had #man #mother #never

If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man. ↗

— James Dean

#between #bridge #dead #death #gap

The Jews don't like Farrakhan, so they call me Hitler. Well, that's a good name. Hitler was a very great man. ↗

— Louis Farrakhan

#good #great #great man #hitler #jews

I don't think of my books as being biographies. I never had any interest in doing a book just to write the life of a great man. I had zero interest in that. My interest is in power. How power works. ↗

— Robert Caro

#being #biographies #book #books #doing