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" Quotes and Sayings About great men

The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women.

Grow Great Convinced Education
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Great men cultivate love and only little men cherish a spirit of hatred; assistance given to the weak makes the one who gives it strong; oppression of the unfortunate makes one weak.

Cultivate Weak Love Unfortunate
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Produce great men, the rest follows.
Produce Men Great
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The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.

Been Commonly Great Great Men
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Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.

Arrangement Attire Great Seldom
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It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

Great Melancholy Men Poor
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No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

Biography Great Great Man Great Men
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Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.

Behind Departing Footprints Great
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The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.

Attained Companions Flight Great
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In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.

Came First Found Great
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Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.

Ambition Been Console Fortune
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I have talked with great men, and I do not see how they differ from others.

Talked Great Men Differ
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Hard work and persistence have kept me in great mental form without fail every time.

Hard work Persistence Mental Every time
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There would be no great men if there were no little ones.

Great men Little ones
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It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.

Great men Truly obscene Dared
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Great men are not born great, they grow great .

Great men Born Grow
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All the children of the great men in Persia are brought up at court, where they have an opportunity of learning great modesty, and where nothing immodest is ever heard or seen

Children Great men Opportunity Learning
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Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

Great men Like eagles Build Their nest
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Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
Great Achieved Men Determined
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The boulder is the truth that the great men know by instinct, and the mountain is the stupidity of mankind.

The bounder The truth Great men By instinct
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Statues to great men are made of the stones thrown at them in their lifetime.
Statues Great men Stones Lifetime
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The lives of great men and women are miracles of patience and perseverance.

Lives Great men Patience Perseverance
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