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  • Join me in my quest for a greater understanding of our existence. Join me in my desire for a greater self. Join me as I seek the humility to love and understand my fellow man.
  • The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.
  • I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.
  • Anybody with ability can play in the big leagues. But to be able to trick people year in and year out the way I did, I think that was a much greater feat.
  • The feeling of being at sea has put me in touch with who I am to a greater degree than if I had been on land all these years. So, in a roundabout way, I imagine it does inform my acting.
  • A ''No'' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a ''Yes'' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
  • The best thing is the combined effect of nicotine with alcohol, greater than the sum of the two parts.
  • Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
  • The greater man, the greater courtesy.
  • He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.
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  • James Allen The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.
    James Allen
    British philosophical writer (1864 - 1912)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • J. C. Macaulay It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.
    J. C. Macaulay
    American clergyman and author (1900 - )
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  • Alfred Adler The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge to conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.
    Alfred Adler
    Austrian psychiatrist (1870 - 1937)
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  • Plato All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • St. John Chrysostom Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
    St. John Chrysostom
    Early Church Father and archbishop
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  • Thomas Jefferson I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Pietro Aretino I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.
    Pietro Aretino
    Italian writer (1492 - 1556)
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  • Joseph Addison If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Booker T. Washington No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • Molière The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
    Molière
    French playwright (ps. by J. B. Poquelin) (1622 - 1673)
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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling The Three in One, the One in Three? Not so! To my own Gods I go. It may be they shall give me greater ease than your cold Christ and tangled Trinities.
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • Confucius We take greater pains to persuade others we are happy than in trying to think so ourselves.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Woodrow Wilson You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • Rabindranath Tagore Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.
    Rabindranath Tagore
    Indian mystic and poet (1861 - 1941)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi A ''No'' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a ''Yes'' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Nicholas Boileau A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.
    Nicholas Boileau
    French poet and critic (1636 - 1711)
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  • Baruch Spinoza A good thing which prevents us from enjoying a greater good is in truth an evil.
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Benjamin Franklin A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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