“Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.”
Source: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, Volume 1 (of 2) (Illustrations)
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“Great men are sometimes so even in small things.”
Source: La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims
“Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.”
“Great men are the guideposts and landmarks in the state.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)
Source: On heroes, hero-worship, & the heroic in history: six lectures ; reported, with emendations and additions
Source: The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)
Source: Chinese Folk Tales
Source: The Railroad Builders: A Chronicle of the Welding of the States
Source: Ayn Rand Novel Collection
Source: The Booker T. Washington Reader
“Great men cultivate love...only little men cherish a spirit of hatred”
“Great men don't 'move to the center' - great men move the center!”
“Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time.”
Source: The Works of the Rev. Sydney Smith
“Great men have all been formed either before academies or independent of them.”
Source: Voltaire – The Philosophical Works: Treatise On Tolerance, Philosophical Dictionary, Candide, Letters on England, Plato’s Dream, Dialogues, The Study of Nature, Ancient Faith and Fable, Zadig…: From the French writer, historian and philosopher, famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion and freedom of expression
“Great men have been among us; hands that penn'd And tongues that utter'd wisdom--better none”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of William Wordsworth (Illustrated)
“Great men have the nature of a child.”
Source: Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna: the most exhaustive collection of the sacred and inspired utterances of Bhagavan Sri Ramakrishna
“Great men help dazzle the people; after that, they dazzle themselves even more dangerously.”
“Great men honour intelligence, little men honour stupidity.”
“Great men in teaching weak men to reflect have set them on the road to error.”
Source: La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims
“Great men know how to control two things; their women and money.”
“Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much.”
Source: Classical dialogues, Greek and Roman
“Great men may jest with saints; 'tis wit in them; But, in the less foul profanation.”
Source: Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Letters, Diaries, Reminiscences and Extensive Biographies: Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned American Novelist, Author of
Source: My Life - Oswald Mosley
Source: The Great Pearl of Wisdom
“Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.”
“Great men should drink with harness on their throats.”
Source: Timon of Athens
Source: Collected Edition of the Novels and Tales by the Right Honorable B. Disraeli: Endymion
Source: The Life of John James Audubon, the Naturalist
“Great men simplify great principles and make them easily intelligible to ordinary men”
Source: The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers
“Great men stamp their mind upon their age and nation.”
Source: Character