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The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.
Words
Karl Kraus

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A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less.
Greatness
Jean De La Bruyere

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Great men always pay deference to greater.
Greatness
Walter Savage Landor

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In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.
Colleges and Universities
Doris Lessing

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There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.
Communication
John Locke

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Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.
Beginning
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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There is no greater glory than love, nor any great punishment than jealously.
Glory
Lope de Vega

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It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.
Advice
J. C. Macaulay

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It is like the seed put in the soil -- the more one sows, the greater the harvest.
Giving
Orison Swett Marden

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There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.
Sincerity
Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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Happy is the man whose deeds are greater than his learning
Deeds and Good Deeds
Midrash

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Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
Reform
Moliere

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The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
Obstacles
Moliere

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I do myself a greater injury in lying that I do him of whom I tell a lie.
Lies and Lying
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle than myself.
Miracles
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

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Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.
Life and Living
Vladimir Nabokov

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The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.
Ignorance
Sir William Osler

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Man has no greater enemy than himself.
Enemies
Francesco Petrarch

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Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you.
Evil
Phaedrus

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If you want greater prosperity in your life, start forming a vacuum to receive it.
Prosperity
Catherine Ponder

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Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.
Poverty and The Poor
Proverb

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There are no greater promisers than those who have nothing to give.
Promises
Proverb

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There is no greater misfortune, than to not be able to endure misfortune.
Misfortunes
Proverb

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There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.
Words
Thomas Reid

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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things
Life and Living
Rainer Maria Rilke

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun