Great Man Quotes
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A truly great man never puts away the simplicity of a child.
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A great man is hard on himself; a small man is hard on others.
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Sooner will a camel pass through a needle's eye than a great man be "discovered" by an election.
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A great nation is like a great man:When he makes a mistake, he realizes it.Having realized it, he admits it.Having admitted it, he corrects it.He considers those who point out his faultsas his most benevolent teachers.He thinks of his enemyas the shadow that he himself casts.
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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.
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Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.
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He was a great man. And he was also me.
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A great man is always willing to be little.
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Eh, brother, but nature has to be corrected and guided, otherwise we'd all drown in prejudices. Without that there wouldn't be even a single great man.
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Just as a waterfall grows slower and more lightly suspended as it plunges down, so the great man of action tends to act with greater calmness than his tempestuous desires prior to the deed would lead one to expect.
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He's just your dad, and you love him. It's only when you grow up, and step back from him, or leave him for your own career and your own home - it's only then that you can measure his greatness and fully appreciate it. Pride reinforces love. My father was a great man.
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The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity.
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When you're talkin' about a great man, you're not talking more than one person. It's not about how many people are followin' you, it's about the fact that you're a great man, that's all it's about.
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The followers of a great man often put their eyes out, so that they may be the better able to sing his praise.
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A great man may not do great things but they do ordinary things greatly.
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The great man is sparing in words but prodigal in deeds.
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The truly great man dwells on what is real and not what is on the surface.
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Behind every great man there stands a great woman. Behind every great woman is a great behind.
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The monument of a great man is not of granite or marble or bronze. It consists of his goodness, his deeds, his love and his compassion.
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Strike at a great man, and you will not miss.
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Rid of craving and without clinging, an expert in the study of texts, and understanding the right sequence of the words, he may indeed be called "In his last body", "Great in wisdom" and a "Great man."
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The demands that a great man makes are on himself; those of a petty man are upon others.
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No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
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It takes a great man to make a great listener.
