Great Men Quotes - Page 21

• Great men, even during their lifetime, are usually known to the public only through a fictitious personality.

  Walter Lippmann

  Men, Personality, Lifetime

  Walter Lippmann (2012). “Public Opinion”, p.3, Courier Corporation

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• God is angry with man. Unless we believe and repent we shall all be damned. It is impossible, indeed, for its advocates even to say this without instantly contradicting themselves. Their doctrine frightens them. They explain in various ways that a great many people will be saved without believing, and that eternal damnation is not eternal nor damnation.

  Leslie Stephen

  Believe, Men, People

  Sir Leslie Stephen (1903). “An Agnostic's Apology, and Other Essays”

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• A tall, well-built man with a deep chest and broad shoulders can carry a heavy burden with ease and unconcern, and still keep one hand free; a dwarf would be crushed by half that weight. Thus lofty posts make great men greater still, and small men much smaller.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Men, Office, Small Man

  "Of Man". "Characters", Book by Jean De La Bruyère, www.ourcivilisation.com. 1688.

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• 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

  Zero, Book, Writing

  "Robert Caro: a life with LBJ and the pursuit of power" by Chris McGreal, www.theguardian.com. June 09, 2012.

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• We expect a great man to be a good reader.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Men, Lovers

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.178, Рипол Классик

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• If you feel proud, let it be in the thought that you are the servant of God, the son of God. Great men have the nature of a child. They are always a child before Him; so they are free from pride. All their strength is of God and not their own. It belongs to Him and comes from Him.

  Ramakrishna

  Children, Pride, Son

  "Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna". Book by Ramakrishna, p. 124, 1960.

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• If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astonishing results are the three criteria of a human genius, who could dare compare any great man in history with Muhammad?

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Mean, Greatness, Men

  "Histoire de la Turquie", Volume 1, (p. 277), 1854.

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• There is no such thing as a great man of God, only weak, pitiful, faithless men of a great and merciful God.

  Paul Washer

  Men, Weak, Man Of God

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• Its awfully hard to be the son of a great man and also of a half-crazy woman.

  Henry Steele Commager

  Crazy, Son, Men

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• People often tell me I could be a great man. I'd rather be a good man.

  John F. Kennedy Jr.

  Inspirational, Men, People

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• My dearly beloved if I am to die today and never see the sweet face of you I want you to know that I am no great man and am lucky to have such a woman as you.

  Wild Bill Hickok

  Sweet, Men, Lucky

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• Great murderers, like great men in other walks of activity, have blue eyes.

  Erik Larson

  Eye, Men, Blue

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• Those unacquainted with the world take pleasure in intimacy with great men; those who are wiser fear the consequences.

  Horace

  Wisdom, Men, World

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• Great men are the real men, in them nature has succeeded.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Real, Greatness, Men

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• I fear uniformity. You cannot manufacture great men any more than you can manufacture gold.

  John Ruskin

  Greatness, Men, Gold

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• Great men undertake great things because they are great; fools, because they think them easy.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Greatness, Men, Thinking

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• The best teachers of humanity are the lives of great men.

  Charles Henry Fowler

  Teacher, Greatness, Men

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 217), 1895.

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• The career of a great man remains an enduring monument of human energy. The man dies and disappears, but his thoughts and acts survive and leave an indelible stamp upon his race.

  Samuel Smiles

  Greatness, Men, Race

  Samuel Smiles (1910). “Character. Repr”

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• Might I give counsel to any man, I would say to him, try to frequent the company of your betters. In books and in life, that is the most wholesome society; learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what great men admire.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Life, Leadership, Book

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “The four Georges. The English humorists. Roundabout papers”, p.148

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• A great man leaves clean work behind him, and requires no sweeper up of the chips.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Greatness, Men, Clean

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.405

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• What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men, but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Men, Mediocre, Nations

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• Great men are but life-sized. Most of them, indeed, are rather short.

  Max Beerbohm

  Men

  Max Beerbohm (2006). “And Even Now”, p.93, 1st World Publishing

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• There are a great many ways to commit suicide you know.

  Stephen King

  Suicide, Way, Commit

  Stephen King (1990). “The Stand”, Signet Book

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• If, like Harry Keogh, I could talk to the dead - God, there are an awful lot of people I would like to speak to! Not least my father. Being in the army for 22 years, I didnt see enough of him, and I know there are a great many things I could have learned from him.

  Brian Lumley

  Father, Army, Years

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• In not having an appointment at Harvard, I'm in the company of a great many people whose work I admire tremendously, in particular women of color.

  Catharine MacKinnon

  Color, People, Harvard

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