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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them.
No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power.
By a great man, however, we mean a man who, because of his spiritual gifts, his character, and other qualities, deserves to be called great and who as a result earns the power to influence others.
It is those who concentrates on but one thing at a time who advance in this world. The great man or woman is the one who never steps outside his or her specialty or foolishly dissipates his or her individuality.
A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.
Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.
Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all.
No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.
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