#great men

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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Great men always pay deference to greater. ↗

— Walter Savage Landor

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Gutenberg and Richter were very great men. ↗

— Frank Press

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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 great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of 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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Great men are rarely isolated mountain peaks; they are the summits of ranges. ↗

— Thomas W. Higginson

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Obama likes to quote great men but will never be a great man himself. I can't stand it when our leader goes around apologizing for who we are. ↗

— Joe Wurzelbacher

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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

Great hopes make great men. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

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