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No man of high and generous spirit is ever willing to indulge in flattery; the good may feel affection for others, but will not flatter them.

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MAN, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be.

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Politicians are a set of men who have interests aside from the interests of the people and who, to say the most of them, are, taken as a mass, at least one long step removed from honest men

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When learned men begin to use their reason, then I generally discover that they haven't got any.

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If ancient tales say true, nor wrong these holy men.

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There is at the back of every artist’s mind something like a pattern and a type of architecture. The original quality in any man of imagination is imagery. It is a thing like the landscape of his dreams; the sort of world he would like to make or in which he would like to wander, the strange flora and fauna, his own secret planet, the sort of thing he likes to think about. This general atmosphere, and pattern or a structure of growth, governs all his creations, however varied.

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I teach you the Overman. Man is something which shall be surpassed.

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It is a common failing of man not to take account of tempests during fair weather.

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I have not slept. Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream: The Genius and the mortal instruments Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.

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You will not rightly call him a happy man who possesses much; he more rightly earns the name of happy who is skilled in wisely using the gifts of the gods, and in suffering hard poverty, and who fears disgrace as worse than death.

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Yet has not Man wept at the sounds? And are not his tears eloquent understanding?

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It's usually pointed out that women are not fit for political power, and ought not to be trusted with a vote because they are politically ignorant, socially prejudiced, narrow-minded, and selfish. True enough, but precisely the same is true of men!

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Wherever a man comes, there comes revolution. The old is for slaves.

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A person of character takes as much trouble to discover what is right as the lesser men take to discover what will pay.

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Man's condition is horrible because, no matter what form his happiness may take, it arises from some species of ignorance.

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For as a surfeit of the sweetest things The deepest loathing to the stomach brings, Or as tie heresies that men do leave Are hated most of those they did deceive, So thou, my surfeit and my heresy, Of all be hated, but the most of me!

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From Him are all name and form; all the animals and men are from Him. He is the one Supreme. He who knows Him becomes free.

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Human language can but imperfectly describe God's ways.

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The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man

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Man," said the Ghost, "if man you be in heart, not adamant, forbear that wicked cant until you have discovered What the surplus is, and Where it is. Will you decide what men shall live, what men shall die?

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