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Great men are little men expanded; great lives are ordinary lives intensified.
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Great men are rarely isolated mountain-peaks; they are the summits of ranges.
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Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.
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Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.
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Great men are the guideposts and landmarks in the state.
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Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary - they are in the true order. It is the other species of men who are not what they ought to be.
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Great men by small means oft are overthrown.
Source: Hesperides (1648) Loss From The Least -
Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time.
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Great men never make bad use of their superiority. They see it and feel it and are not less modest. The more they have, the more they know their own deficiencies.
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Great merit, or great failings, will make you respected or despised; but trifles, little attentions, mere nothings, either done or neglected, will make you either liked or disliked in the general run of the world.
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Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.
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Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.
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Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery.
― Richard Buckminster Fuller
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Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.
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Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men.
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Great people are meteors designed to burn so that the earth may be lighted.
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Great people are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world.
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Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
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