Greatness

No man is truly great who is great only in his own lifetime.  The test of greatness is the page of history.  ~William Hazlitt, Table Talk, 1822


Few great men could pass personnel.  ~Paul Goodman


I have learned the truth of the observation that the more one approaches great men the more one finds that they are men.  ~Bernard M. Baruch


No man was ever great without a touch of divine afflatus.  ~Cicero

There is a great man who makes every man feel small.  But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.  ~G.K. Chesterton


We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.  ~Stewart Udall


It is a mistake to imagine that potentially great men are rare.  It is the conditions that permit the promise of greatness to be fulfilled that are rare.  What is so difficult to achieve is the cultural background that permits potential greatness to be converted into actual greatness.  ~Fred Hoyle, Of Man and Galaxies

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