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- Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.
- Herodotus (484 BC - 430 BC), Inscription, New York City Post Office, adapted from Herodotus
- Not snow, no, nor rain, nor heat, nor night keeps them from accomplishing their appointed courses with all speed.
- Herodotus (484 BC - 430 BC), The Histories of Herodotus
- The king's might is greater than human, and his arm is very long.
- Herodotus (484 BC - 430 BC), The Histories of Herodotus
- This is the bitterest pain among men, to have much knowledge but no power.
- Herodotus (484 BC - 430 BC), The Histories of Herodotus
- In soft regions are born soft men.
- Herodotus (484 BC - 430 BC), The Histories of Herodotus
- America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration.
- Warren G. Harding (1865 - 1923), Speech in Boston, 1920
- Oh, treacherous night! thou lendest thy ready veil to every treason, and teeming mischief's beneath thy shade.
- Aaron Hill
- Dateline: Mesopotamia, 3500 B.C. That's when the multi-faceted sounds we call music got its humble beginnings. It seems clappers were sent out the the fields to scare evil spirits away. These clappers started getting into the beat of their duty and, bingo, you got drums. From there, horns, strings, reeds, the whole orchestral gestalt. So, born in staving off death, music continues to nourish us in a variety of forms as different as the colors of the spectrum.
- Jeffrey Vlaming, Northern Exposure, Heroes, 1992
- An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
- Zora Neale Hurston (1901 - 1960), "Their Eyes Were Watching God"
- I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.
- Christopher Reeve
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