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  • Things men have made with wakened hands, and put soft life into are awake through years with transferred touch, and go on glowing for long years. And for this reason, some old things are lovely warm still with the life of forgotten men who made them.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Men Quotes , Glowing Quotes
  • There's a man in the world who is never turned down, whatever he chances to stray; he gets the glad hand in the populous town, or out where the farmers makes hay; he's greeted with pleasure on deserts of sand, and deep in the aisles of the woods; wherever he goes there's a welcoming hand-he's the man who delivers the goods.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Walt Whitman Quotes , Men Quotes , Hands Quotes
  • Another argument of hope may be drawn from this-that some of the inventions already known are such as before they were discovered it could hardly have entered any man's head to think of; they would have been simply set aside as impossible. For in conjecturing what may be men set before them the example of what has been, and divine of the new with an imagination preoccupied and colored by the old; which way of forming opinions is very fallacious, for streams that are drawn from the springheads of nature do not always run in the old channels.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Francis Bacon Quotes , Running Quotes , Men Quotes
  • I'm not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself - then they get to say 'See, you did it yourself.'
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Alice Walker Quotes , Men Quotes , Delight Quotes
  • Being well satisfied that, for a man who thinks himself to be somebody, there is nothing more disgraceful than to hold himself up as honored, not on his own account, but for the sake of his forefathers. Yet hereditary honors are a noble and splendid treasure to descendants.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Plato Quotes , Men Quotes , Thinking Quotes
  • The interest of [businessmen] is always in some respects different from, and even opposite to, that of the public ... The proposal of any new law or regulation of commerce which comes from this order ... ought never to be adopted, till after having been long and carefully examined ... with the most suspicious attention. It comes from an order of men ... who have generally an interest to deceive and even oppress the public.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Adam Smith Quotes , Men Quotes , Order Quotes
  • The time is fast approaching when to call a man a patriot will be the deepest insult you can offer him. Patriotism now means advocating plunder in the interest of the privileged classes of the particular State system into which we have happened to be born.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Mean Quotes , Men Quotes