“The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.”
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“Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.”
“If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.”
“A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.”
“I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to solve the problems of this continent. I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses.”
“Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.”
“Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.”
“There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.”
“When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.”
“Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.”
“Being is the great explainer.”
“Life in abundance comes only through great love.”
“Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.”
“The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.”
“Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.”
“The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.”
“Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.”
“As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.”
“One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.”
“The system is that there is no system. That doesn't mean we don't have process. Apple is a very disciplined company, and we have great processes. But that's not what it's about. Process makes you more efficient.”
“Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.”
“Preachers in pulpits talked about what a great message is in the book. No matter what you do, somebody always imputes meaning into your books.”
“The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.”
“The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.”