“Four things greater than all things are,—
Women and Horses and Power and War.”
Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) English short-story writer, poet, and novelist
The Ballad of the King's Jest, Stanza 4
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“The only thing greater than the power of the mind is the courage of the heart”
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American mathematician and Nobel Prize laureate 1928–2015Related quotes
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Montesquieu (1689–1755) French social commentator and political thinker
No. 104. (Usbek writing to Ibben)
Lettres Persanes (Persian Letters, 1721)
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Brené Brown (1965) US writer and professor
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