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Do you see how the god always hurls his bolts at the greatest houses and the tallest trees. For he is wont to thwart whatever is greater than the rest. ↗

— Herodotus

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It sounds cliched, but superheroes can be lonely, vain, arrogant and proud. Often they overcome these human frailties for the greater good. ↗

— Tom Hiddleston

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Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit. ↗

— Napoleon Hill

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Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

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There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

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What greater reassurance can the weak have than that they are like anyone else? ↗

— Eric Hoffer

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For the last half of my life I have had the doubtful benefit of a brother whose literary reputation is much greater than my own. ↗

— Laurence Housman

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The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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A superstition which pretends to be scientific creates a much greater confusion of thought than one which contents itself with simple popular practices. ↗

— Johan Huizinga

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