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Great Men Quotes

The world’s great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.

– Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

There would be no great men if there were no little ones.

– George Herbert

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

– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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.

– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Great men are seldom over scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.

– Charles Dickens

The Pickwick Papers, Chapter 2.

The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.

– Isaac D’Israeli

Great men always pay deference to greater.

– Walter Savage Landor

Great men are rarely isolated mountain-peaks; they are the summits of ranges.

– Thomas Wentworth Higginson

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