Quote by Edmund Burke
Great men are the guideposts and landmarks in the state. - Edmund

Great men are the guideposts and landmarks in the state. – Edmund Burke

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

We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself. – Jean Baudrillard

All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved. – Elizabeth Bowen

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

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