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A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it.


William Hazlitt

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No really great man ever thought himself so. - William Hazlitt,
WILLIAM HAZLITT One said he wondered that leather was not dearer than any other thing. Being demanded a reason: b...
WILLIAM HAZLITT A great chess-player is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it. No act terminating ...
WILLIAM HAZLITT A great man even when dead,his name will continue to elicit greatness for generations to come.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The light of a great man shines for generations to come.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Who is a great man? A great man is a person whom people are dying to write books about.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A man is as great as the dreams he dreams, As great as the love he bears; As great as the values he...
C.E. FLYNN A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.
PAUL VALERY He who comes up to his own idea of greatness, must always have had a very low standard of it in his...
WILLIAM HAZLITT When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW I know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn't capable of great emotion, well, he leaves...
ALBERT CAMUS It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER If a man leaves little children behind him, it is as if he did not die
MOROCCAN PROVERB So when a great man dies, For years beyond our ken, The light he leaves behind him lies ...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW This is great for Sean because he's a great young man. He did a great job for us.
EARL GARCIA Pretty much anything William Shatner is in is great. He's great at playing that 'I'm the...
LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA Remember William Cooper, he fought hard for what was right and paid the ultimate price. Let us never...
ENRIQUE VEGA He who does not reach the Great Wall is not a true man!
MAO ZEDONG He wasn't a great man, but he had a great life.
JEFFREY RASLEY A great idea is like a fast moving train without brake & all contrary minds that crosses its path wi...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) If Kitchener was not a great man, he was, at least, a great poster.
MARGOT ASQUITH A great man is he who has not lost the heart of a child.
MENCIUS It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens...
LOREN EISELEY He was as great as a man can be without morality.
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE He was as great as a man can be without morality
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, JR The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES JR. A Great man is he who does not lose his childlike heart.
MENCIUS (MENGZI MENG-TSE) As far as Saddam Hussein being a great military strategist, he is neither a strategist, nor is he ...
GENERAL NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF You differ from a great man in only one respect: the great man was once a very little man, but he de...
WILHELM REICH What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear...
JAMES THURBER Time is not the great teacher. Experience is. A man may live a whole life, but if he never leaves hi...
LYNSAY SANDS As far as Saddam Hussein being a great military strategist, he is neither a strategist, nor is he sc...
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF The man I am today it's not the man of yesterday
CHRISTOPHER FUDGE A great nation is like a great man:
When he makes a mistake, he realizes it.
Having realiz...
LAO TZU He (Shields) has been doing it all year long. He might not get the credit, but to have a great close...
FRANCISCO RODRIGUEZ This is a great man, a great American. For him to come forward and admit he made this mistake — it ...
HANS MUEH He's a great player. He'll be playing in the NBA whenever he leaves college.
BEN HOWLAND I am very proud of William Kushner. He should prove to be a great asset to Berwyn.
MARK WEINER Philip Seymour Hoffman thought he was God's gift to acting, even when he was 18. William H. Macy was...
JANA PERI A man is not a man until he leaves his home or has a house of his own.
VIKRANT PARSAI Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls; Who, when he had...
BIBLE A great man does not seek applause or place; he seeks for truth; he seeks the road to happiness, and...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL The great man is he who does not lose his child's-heart.
MENCIUS There's not a more deserving person. He's great for Indianapolis, great for the city and he deserves...
BRANDON STOKLEY Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.
STANLEY KUBRICK Divinity is great enough to be divine; it is great enough to call itself divine. But as humanity gro...
G.K. CHESTERTON When he entered the anteroom, two women looked up at him. One was Miss Robertson, the governor's sec...
GEORGE P. ELLIOTT What makes a man great is all the good things he left behind and as for Atatürk, thinking generatio...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN He was a very special man. He was a strong supporter of our program and he really, really cared. We'...
BOBBY ROSS The great man is he who does not lose his child-heart.
MENCIUS The great man is he who has not lost his child's heart.
MENCIUS The Doktor was an old man. When he was a kid, his Dad bought him a chemistry set. He never played wi...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Here's a man that the public loves, he's doing a great job for our country, a great job. He made a m...
AARON SPELLING We bear the world and we make it... There was never a great man who had not a great mother - it is h...
OLIVE SCHREINER I will never deny that life isn't fair. It seems as though when a woman leaves a man she is strong a...
CRISS JAMI His message of peace and love was universal. He is the man to whom the world owes a great debt of gr...
HERMAN BOONE A good book, he had concluded, leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to re...
RICHARD FLANAGAN I had a coach that was not a great player, but he taught with kids and juniors so that by the time h...
GUY FORGET There's poverty in wealth. If a man is wealthy without good health, is he not poor? If a man is weal...
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON Only when a man will not do some things is he capable of doing great things.
MENCIUS The NFL is a different world. UT is a great world, especially when you're on top of it like he is.
DAN FOUTS The great man is he that does not lose his child's heart. -Menius.
MENIUS The great man is he that does not lose his child's heart. -Menicus.
MENICUS The great man is he who has not lost his child's heart. -Mecius.
MECIUS His stamp is on so many things about the festival. He was a great personality. I see it as a great p...
ALAN FLETCHER Jason has found a lifelong hobby as well as a great form of exercise. He lost 80 pounds since we ope...
DION SHIVELY He is presenting himself not as a terrorist, a bloodsucker, a man who would like to destroy the worl...
ABDEL ATWAN He is presenting himself not as a terrorist, a bloodsucker, a man who would like to destroy the worl...
ABDEL BARI ATWAN He threw a great ball. They were playing man-to-man, and there's not much the defender can do when h...
BENJAMIN WATSON The rule seemed to be that a great woman must either die unwed ... or find a still greater man to ma...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS He is, or has been, in many ways a great man. But for this very reason he is odd. It is only petty m...
UMBERTO ECO He taught us with his actions as well as his words -- he taught the power of nonviolence for human d...
WALT BLOMBERG One commending a Tayler for his dexteritie in his profession, another standing by ratified his opin...
WILLIAM HAZLITT House, he stepped up big. The guy's amazing. As big as he is, he can run. He's got great hands, grea...
STEPHEN ALEXANDER No man is a great man if he used violence to achieve his goals!
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN A man must first care for his own household before he can be of use to the state. But no matter how ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
B. R. AMBEDKAR I will not attempt to show that it would be a great evil to increase the patronage of the Executive....
JOHN C. CALHOUN It is very good for a man to talk about what he does not understand; as long as he understands that ...
GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON Only when there are things a man will not do is he capable of doing great things.
MENCIUS He was a great thundering paradox of a man.
WILLIAM MANCHESTER Lord Byron is only great as a poet; as soon as he reflects he is a child.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Moreover, no one is judged from the natural man, thus not so long as he lives in the natural world, ...
EMANUEL SWEDENBORG He was a great man. Brian worked hard at everything he did.
CHAD SWANK So dangerous it is for a man to come into the acquisition of great fortune before he matures in virt...
PAUL BAMIKOLE He was an absolute asset to the force, a great ambassador and sadly he has found himself making this...
PAUL KELLY He is a man of great personal power, honor and honesty. I saw in him a really good man who would mak...
DENNIS HAYSBERT Dreadful will be the day when the world becomes contented, when one great universal satisfaction spr...
PHILLIPS BROOKS The measure of a man is what he does with power.
PLATO He that lets the small things bind him, leaves the great undone behind him.
UNKNOWN What is a man if he is not a thief who openly charges as much as he can for the goods he sells?
MAHATMA GANDHI A superior man in dealing with the world is not for anything or against anything. He follows righteo...
CONFUCIUS He is a great artist. He may be the finest artist among American writers since William Faulkner and ...
HAROLD BLOOM Whenever he met a great man he groveled before him, and my-lorded him as only a free-born Briton can...
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY He's a man of integrity and a team player, and he can take great pride in what he has accomplished a...
DON KAVERMAN It is the idle man, not the great worker, who is always complaining that he has no time or opportuni...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN At the conference meet he had a great meet. For the field events, he?s the man. He could come out wi...
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WILLIAM HAZLITT The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.
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WILLIAM HAZLITT If mankind had wished for what is right, they might have had it long ago.
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WILLIAM HAZLITT We can scarcely hate anyone that we know.
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WILLIAM HAZLITT Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.
WILLIAM HAZLITT To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must see...
WILLIAM HAZLITT I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.
WILLIAM HAZLITT Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach...
WILLIAM HAZLITT The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.
WILLIAM HAZLITT There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain f...
WILLIAM HAZLITT There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.
WILLIAM HAZLITT There are persons who cannot make friends. Who are they? Those who cannot be friends. It is not the ...
WILLIAM HAZLITT The title of Ultracrepidarian critics has been given to those persons who find fault with small and...
WILLIAM HAZLITT One said he wondered that leather was not dearer than any other thing. Being demanded a reason: b...
WILLIAM HAZLITT If we wish to know the force of human genius we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the ins...
WILLIAM HAZLITT One commending a Tayler for his dexteritie in his profession, another standing by ratified his opin...
WILLIAM HAZLITT I should like to spend the whole of my life in travelling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another...
WILLIAM HAZLITT He who comes up to his own idea of greatness must always have had a very low standard of it in mind
WILLIAM HAZLITT Those only deserve a monument who do not need one
WILLIAM HAZLITT Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them
WILLIAM HAZLITT A person may be indebted for a nose or an eye, for a graceful carriage or a voluble discourse, to a ...
WILLIAM HAZLITT There was a time when we were not: this gives us no concern - why then should it trouble us that a t...
WILLIAM HAZLITT Those who from a constant change and dissipation of outward objects have not a moment's leisure left...
WILLIAM HAZLITT The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have
WILLIAM HAZLITT One of the pleasantest things in the world is going on a journey; but I like to go by myself. I can ...
WILLIAM HAZLITT Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets. We attempt nothing great but from a sense of...
WILLIAM HAZLITT