Best Great Men Thoughts
679 Great Men quotes by 462 unique authors
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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…
— Leslie Stephen
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Lofty posts make great men greater still, and small men much smaller.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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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…
— Robert Caro
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We expect a great man to be a good reader.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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…
— Ramakrishna
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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…
— Alphonse de Lamartine
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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
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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
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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.
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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…
— Wild Bill Hickok
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Great murderers, like great men in other walks of activity, have blue eyes.
— Erik Larson
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Those unacquainted with the world take pleasure in intimacy with great men; those who are wiser fear the consequences.
— Horace
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Great men are the real men, in them nature has succeeded.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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I fear uniformity. You cannot manufacture great men any more than you can manufacture gold.
— John Ruskin
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Great men undertake great things because they are great; fools, because they think them easy.
— Luc de Clapiers
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The best teachers of humanity are the lives of great men.
— Charles Henry Fowler
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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…
— Samuel Smiles
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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,…
— William Makepeace Thackeray
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A great man leaves clean work behind him, and requires no sweeper up of the chips.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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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
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Great men are but life-sized. Most of them, indeed, are rather short.
— Max Beerbohm
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There are a great many ways to commit suicide you know.
— Stephen King
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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!…
— Brian Lumley
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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…
— Catharine MacKinnon
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Proust has listed a great many reasons why it is impossible to be happy, but, in the course of being happy, one finds it difficult…
— William Empson
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