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  • Basil Hume The great gift of Easter is hope - Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love, which nothing can shake.
    Basil Hume
    English Roman Catholic bishop (1923 - 1999)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Aldous Huxley The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Bjornstjerne Bjornson The greater the burden a man takes upon his shoulders, the stronger he must be to carry it. No words are unmentionable, no action or horror beyond powers of description, if one is equal to them.
    Bjornstjerne Bjornson
    Norwegian writer (1832 - 1910)
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  • Samuel Daniel The greatest Enemy That Man can have, is his Prosperity.
    The Poetical Works of Mr. Samuel Daniel 13
    Samuel Daniel
    English poet (1562 - 1619)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe The greatest genius will never be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Benjamin Haydon The greatest geniuses have always attributed everything to God, as if conscious of being possessed of a spark of His divinity.
    Benjamin Haydon
    British artist (1786 - 1846)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Benjamin Clementine The greatest in heroes in life are the anonymous. That's what I believe. Your neighbours are heroes. People who, when you walk down the street, you see them feeding their little baby - these people are heroes because they are living under difficult situations, but they're still trying to save a life.
    Benjamin Clementine
    British artist, poet, vocalist, composer, and musician (1988 - )
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  • Alexander Pope The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Buffalo Bill The greatest of all the Sioux in my time, or in any time for that matter, was that wonderful old fighting man, Sitting Bull, whose life will some day be written by a historian who can really give him his due.
    An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill (1920)
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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  • William Booth The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender.
    William Booth
    English Methodist preacher (1829 - 1912)
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  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, ''Let no one be called happy till his death;'' to which I would add, ''Let no one, till his death be called unhappy.''
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    English poet (1806 - 1861)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The hand of the painter is incurably mechanical: his technique is incurably artificial. The camera is so utterly unmechanical.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Alfred Lord Tennyson The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
    Alfred Lord Tennyson
    English poet (1809 - 1892)
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  • Nelson Algren The hard necessity of bringing the judge on the bench down into the dock has been the peculiar responsibility of the writer in all ages of man.
    Nelson Algren
    American writer (1909 - 1981)
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  • Helen Rowland The hardest task in a girl's life is to prove to a man that his intentions are serious.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Helen Rowland The hardest task of a girl's life, nowadays, is to prove to a man that his intentions are serious.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • C. S. Lewis The hardness of God is kinder than the softness of men, and His compulsion is our liberation.
    Surprised by Joy (1955)
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Adam Weishaupt The head of every family will be what Abraham was, the patriarch, the priest and the unlettered lord of his family, and Reason will be the code of laws to all mankind.
    Adam Weishaupt
    German philosopher (1748 - 1830)
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