Great Men Quotes - Page 27

• Great hopes make great men.

  Thomas Fuller

  Inspirational, Positive, Hope

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• Thomas Davis was a great man where poetry is concerned, and a better than Thomas Moore. All over Ireland his poetry is, and he would have done other things but that he died young.

  Lady Gregory

  Men, Done, Young

  Lady Gregory (2013). “The Essential Lady Gregory Collection”, p.521, eBookIt.com

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• There would be no great ones, if there were no little ones.

  George Herbert

  Inspirational, Greatness, Men

  "The Works of George Herbert in Prose and Verse".

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• A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time.

  Eric Hoffer

  Time, Good Luck, Greatness

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Education, Men, Political

  1857-8 The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, ch.6.

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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

  Fear, Men, Intimate

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• A great artist is a great man in a great child.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Children, Artist

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• Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.

  Victor Hugo

  Men, Seems, Smallness

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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

  Men, Liberty, Want

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• I've also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable, because they have built such high standards for themselves that they often feel alone. But that same loneliness is part of their ability to create.

  Yousuf Karsh

  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone

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• Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Greatness, Men, Ordinary

  Walter Savage Landor (1883). “Classical dialogues, Greek and Roman”

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• The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Inspirational, Success, Perseverance

  'The Ladder of Saint Augustine' (1850)

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• Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time.

  Sydney Smith

  Time, Greatness, Men

  Sydney Smith (1859). “The Works of the Rev. Sydney Smith”, p.315

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• The loss of sex polarity is part and parcel of the larger disintegration, the reflex of the soul's death, and coincident with the disappearance of great men, great deeds, great causes, great wars, etc.

  Henry Miller

  Death, Sex, War

  Henry Miller (1961). “The Cosmological Eye”, p.120, New Directions Publishing

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• Did you ever see a portrait of a great man without perceiving strong traits of pain and anxiety?

  John Adams

  Strong, Pain, Men

  John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1856). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.217

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• The necessity of saying something, the embarrassment produced by the consciousness of having nothing to say, and the desire to exhibit ability, are three things sufficient to render even a great man ridiculous.

  Voltaire

  Philosophy, Men, Desire

  Voltaire (1824). “A Philosophical Dictionary: From the French”, p.118

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• "The Universe repeats itself, with the possible exception of history." Of all earthly studies history is the only one that does not repeat itself. ... Astronomy repeats itself; botany repeats itself; trigonometry repeats itself; mechanics repeats itself; compound long division repeats itself. Every sum if worked out in the same way at any time will bring out the same answer. ... A great many moderns say that history is a science; if so it occupies a solitary and splendid elevation among the sciences; it is the only science the conclusions of which are always wrong.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Science, Long, History

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• [At the end of the story, its main character, Tom] is now a great man of science, and can plan railroads, and steam-engines, and electric telegraphs, and rifled guns, and so forth; and knows everything about everything, except why a hen's egg don't turn into a crocodile, and two or three other little things that no one will know till the coming of the Cocqcigrues.

  Charles Kingsley

  Knowledge, Character, Science

  Charles Kingsley (1872). “The Water-babies a Fairy Tale for a Land-baby by the Rev. Charles Kingsley”, p.385

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• The errors of great men are venerable because they are more fruitful than the truths of little men.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Truth, Science, Men

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.27, Penguin

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• I am weary seeing our laboring classes so wretchedly housed, fed, and clothed, while thousands of dollars are wasted every year over unsightly statues. If these great man must have outdoor memorials, let them be in the form of handsome blocks of buildings for the poor

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Block, Men, Years

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Harriot (Stanton). Blatch (Mrs) (1922). “Elizabeth Cady Stanton as revealed in her letters, diary and reminiscences”

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• I think football management has obviously changed and evolved in terms of practices and methods, but I would say the values we strive to hold are the same as great men like Bill Shankly and Bob Paisley.

  Brendan Rodgers

  Football, Men, Thinking

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• I think the reason why I'm so alluring to networks is because on the surface I'm like a quintessential relatable, boring white guy. A great many sitcoms have been anchored by a boring white guy, so I feel like what they want to mine from me are my more generic qualities.

  Mike Birbiglia

  Thinking, White, Guy

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Few great men would have got past personnel.

  Paul Goodman

  Funny, Business, Past

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• In the popular arena, one can tell ... that the average man ... imagines that an industrious acquisition of particulars will render him a man of knowledge. With what pathetic trust does he recite his facts! He has been told that knowledge is power, and knowledge consists of a great many small things.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Men, Average, Doe

  Richard M. Weaver (2013). “Ideas Have Consequences”, p.13, University of Chicago Press

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• I know of no great men except those who have rendered great service to the human race.

  Voltaire

  Helping Others, Men, Race

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