Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness - William Culle

Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness – William Cullen Bryant

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Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary — they are in the true order. It is the other species of men who are not what they ought to be. – Henri Frederic Amiel

The dullards envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end. – Max Beerbohm

All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know. – Alexis Carrel

Sighing that Nature formed but one such man, and broke the die. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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