#great men

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

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Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events. ↗

— John Drinkwater

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In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power. ↗

— A. J. P. Taylor

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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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Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength that matters for their work. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

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The great men of power who seek to change the nations they belong to usually are pretty terrible people. ↗

— John Keegan

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