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The great lesson of biography is to show what man can be and do at his best. A noble life put fairly on record acts like an inspiration to others. — Samuel Smiles

No matter what great characteristics a man may have, he cannot be equal to God — Sunday Adelaja

The essence of Macbeth is seeing a great and intelligent man succumb to the forces of darkness. What gives the tragedy — William Shakespeare

Do not expect to be acknowledged for what you are, much less for what you would be; since no one can well measure a great man but upon the bier. — Walter Savage Landor

A great man does not seek applause or place; he seeks for truth; he seeks the road to happiness, and what he ascertains, he gives to others. — Robert Green Ingersoll

Socrates was a wise man. Surveying the goods on a market stall, the great one was said to have remarked, What a lot of things a man doesn't need! — Ruth Downie

One great difference between a wise man and a fool is, the former only wishes for what he may possibly obtain; the latter desires impossibilities. — Democritus

I read a book a week, man. And I don't have a great memory, but I have a good memory about what I read. — Junot Diaz

What a great thing is understanding! It is priceless. No man can give greater pleasure to his fellow man than by understanding him. — Hazrat Inayat Khan

What is man without the beasts? For if all the beast were gone, man would die of a great loneliness of the spirit. — Chief Seattle

Texas is a great state. It's the 'Old Man River' of states. No matter who runs it or what happens to it politically, it just keeps rolling along! — Will Rogers

To what level of depravity has a society descended when it condemns a man simply because he is strong and great? — Ayn Rand

But I understand your doubts. They're what make you a great man, not your certainties. — Louise Penny

What? A great man? I only ever see the ape of his own ideal. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Love and Death? What has great music or poetry ever been about, but those twin forces that undo a man? — Douglas Wynne

What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal: what is lovable in man is that he is an over-going and a down-going. — Friedrich Nietzsche

It isn't what a man's got in the bank, but what he's got in his head, that makes him a great merchant. — George Horace Lorimer

Toleration in religion was one of the great rights of man, and a man ought never to be deprived of what was his natural right. — Charles James Fox

What a great man. There aren't very many of them left. I can't wait to see his other policies. Hope he's the next Teddy Roosevelt! — Brad McKinniss

Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man. — William Howard Taft

A Man is born and dies but what he does with his life in between will make him great. Go out ... Live your life great! — Timothy Pina

A toast to great sex and a man who knows what to do with his cock. — Jaci Burton

What? A great man? I always see merely the play-actor of his own ideal. — Friedrich Nietzsche

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. — Henry Ford

Oh! what a superior man," said Candide below his breath. "What a great genius is this Pococurante! Nothing can please him. — Voltaire

If a man believes and expects great things of himself, it makes no odds where you put him, or what you show him . he will be surrounded by grandeur. — Henry David Thoreau

What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man. — Moliere

A man in the skyscraper needs to feed a pigeon from his window to remember what great thing missing in his life: The touch of nature! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Occasions of adversity best discover how great virtue or strength each one hath. For occasions do not make a man frail, but they show what he is. — Thomas A Kempis

Death is a great revealer of what is in a man, and in its solemn shadow appear the naked lineaments of the soul. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

CLOCK, n. A machine of great moral value to man, allaying his concern for the future by reminding him what a lot of time remains to him. — Ambrose Bierce