Lord Byron Quotes, Men Quotes, Imagination Quotes

If a man proves too clearly and convincingly to himself...that a tiger is an optical illusion--well, he will find out he is wrong. The tiger will himself intervene in the discussion, in a manner which will be in every sense conclusive.

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All animals are to be found in men and each of theme exists in some man, sometimes several at the time.

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Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.

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Man is bound to lie about himself

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Men must have somewhat altered the course of nature; for they were not born wolves, yet they have become wolves. God did not give them twenty-four-pounders or bayonets, yet they have made themselves bayonets and guns to destroy each other. In the same category I place not only bankruptcies, but the law which carries off the bankrupts’ effects, so as to defraud their creditors.

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...while the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty.

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Life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not die, so do other creatures.

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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

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He is only rich who owns the day. There is no king, rich man, fairy, or demon who possesses such power as that.

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Men of learning are those who have read the contents of books. Thinkers, geniuses, and those who have enlightened the world and furthered the race of men, are those who have made direct use of the book of the world.

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The earth yields up her stores, of every ill The instigators; iron, foe to man, And gold, than iron deadlier.

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For the vision of one man lends not its wings to another man.

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I quote another man's saying; unluckily, that other withdraws himself in the same way, and quotes me.

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At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper-no amount of rhetoric or voluminous discussion can possibly diminish the overwhelming importance of the point.

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It seems just possible that a poem might happen to a very young man: but a poem is not poetry -That is a life.

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Men of sense esteem wealth to be the assimilation of nature to themselves, the converting of the sap and juices of the planet to the incarnation and nutriment of their design.

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Marriage is a step so grave and decisive that it attracts light-headed, variable men by its very awfulness.

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There are two kinds of charlatan: the man who is called a charlatan, and the man who really is one. The first is the quack who cures you; the second is the highly qualified person who doesn't.

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Men fancied there might be other men upon Mars, perhaps inferior to themselves and ready to welcome a missionary enterprise.

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True brevity of expression consists in a man only saying what is worth saying, while avoiding all diffuse explanations of things which every one can think out for himself.

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