Great men are excellent topics of conversation, but the superior man, the superior men, the masters, the universal spirits on horseback, have… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
May the time come when rich men and great men would think it an honor to support whole stations of missionaries in… — David Livingstone Copy Share Image
He who receives a great many letters demanding answer, sees himself as if engaged in a hopeless struggle of one man against… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Great men are they who see that the spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
As to the Christian religion, besides the strong evidence which we have for it, there is a balance in its favor from… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“would have found you earlier, before whatever happened that filled you with this rage. I would not have raised you to be… — Pierce Brown Copy Share Image
The volumes which record the history of the human race are filled with the deeds and the words of great men ...… — Mary Ritter Beard Copy Share Image
Had opened a gallery I already had strong connections with New York, because I was taking work on consignment from New York… — Virginia Dwan Copy Share Image
The borrowing is often honest enough, and comes of magnanimity and stoutness. A great man quotes bravely and will not draw on… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Tom’s cowardice was as huge as his courage, as it must be in great men. His violence balanced his tenderness, and himself… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Great men are among the best gifts which God bestows upon a people. — George Stillman Hillard Copy Share Image
A great man leaves clean work behind him, and requires no sweeper up of the chips. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
An infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all truly great men. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The Declaration of Independence to which these great men affixed their signatures is much more than a political document. It constitutes a… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
“In historical events great men - so-called - are but labels serving to give a name to the event, and like labels… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
He could foretell whats'ever was By consequence to come to pass. As Death of Great Men, Alterations, Diseases, Battels, Inundations. All this… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
The biographies of the great men see their excesses as signs of their greatness. — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
