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Great Man Quotes by Thomas Carlyle
- No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
- These Arabs, the man Mahomet, and that one century, - is it not as if a spark had fallen, one spark, on a world of…
- A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.
- Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men.
- No sooner does a great man depart, and leave his character as public property, than a crowd of little men rushes towards it. There they…
- Hero-worship is the deepest root of all; the tap-root, from which in a great degree all the rest were nourished and grown . . .…
- The Great Man's sincerity is of the kind he cannot speak of, is not conscious of: nay, I suppose, he is conscious rather of insincerity;…
- Worship of a hero is transcendent admiration of a great man.
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- There was never a great man who had not a great mother. — Olive Schreiner
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