#greater

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When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were, and from it the work that he desires to create flows into him... For such is the immensity of man that he is greater than heaven and earth.


Paracelsus


#desires #earth #establishes #flows #greater

But is not He who created it for the sake of the sick body more than the remedy? And is not He who cures the soul, which is more than the body, greater?


Paracelsus


#created #cures #greater #more #remedy

Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read.


Ross Perot


#action #author #being #contemplation #good

The God we serve does not seek out the perfect, but instead uses our imperfections and our shortcomings for his greater good. I am humbled by my own limitations. But where I am weak, He is strong.


Rick Perry


#does #god #good #greater #his

Armed and law-abiding citizens are a greater deterrent to violent crime than 1,000 laws passed by Congress.


Rick Perry


#citizens #congress #crime #deterrent #greater

I was the one that brought it in, but not only for the north-east, for every area so we can develop all the regional economies, lift up the national productivity, get greater wealth and share it more evenly.


John Prescott


#brought #develop #economies #evenly #every

My mortal foe can no ways wish me a greater harm than England's hate; neither should death be less welcome unto me than such a mishap betide me.


Elizabeth I


#england #foe #greater #harm #hate

Again, I think we have much greater diplomatic weight by having all of us sit on the same side of the table wanting the same thing, and putting it to the North Koreans.


Mitchell Reiss


#diplomatic #greater #having #i #i think

There hardly can be a greater difference between any two men, than there too often is, between the same man, a lover and a husband.


Samuel Richardson


#between #difference #greater #hardly #husband

For the greater beauty of the instrument, the balls representing the planets are to be of considerable bigness; but so contrived, that they may be taken off at pleasure, and others, much smaller, and fitter for some purposes, put in their places.


David Rittenhouse


#beauty #bigness #considerable #contrived #fitter