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LADY STUTFIELD I adore silent men. MRS ALLONBY Oh, Ernest isn't silent. He talks the whole time. But he has got no conversation. What he talks about I don't know. I haven't listened to him for years.

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Men spend their life down here in the worship of petty (or mean) interests and the search of perishable things, and with that ("et avec cela", Fr.) they pretend to perpetuate for all eternity their self ("moi", Fr.) so hardly worthy ("digne", Fr.) of it.

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Tags : African Spir Quotes , Mean Quotes , Men Quotes

I am a ridiculous man. They call me a madman now. That would be a distinct rise in my social position were it not that they still regard me as being as ridiculous as ever.

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Tags : Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes , Men Quotes , Would Be Quotes

No one punishes the evil-doer under the notion, or for the reason, that he has done wrong -- only the unreasonable fury of a beast acts in that way. But he who desires to inflict rational punishment does not retaliate for a past wrong, for that which is done cannot be undone, but he has regard to the future, and is desirous that the man who is punished, and he who sees him punished, may be deterred from doing wrong again.

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Strange as my circumstances were, the terms of this debate are as old and commonplace as man; much the same inducements and alarms cast the die for any tempted and trembling sinner; and it fell out with me, as it falls with so vast a majority of my fellows, that I chose the better part and was found wanting in the strength to keep to it.

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God is Dead; but given the way of men, there may still be caves for thousands of years in which his shadow will be shown. And we - we still have to vanquish his shadow, too.

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None But such as are good men can give good things, And that which is not good, is not delicious To a well-govern'd and wise appetite.

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The only safe and honorable course for a self-respecting man is to do what I have decided to do, that is, to submit without protest to the penalty of disobedience ... not for want of respect for lawful authority, but in obedience to the higher law of our being, the voice of conscience.

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A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth; this has been exactly reversed.

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A man who has tasted with profound enjoyment the pleasure of agreeable society will eat with a greater appetite than he who rode horseback for two hours. An amusing lecture is as useful for health as the exercise of the body.

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Brave deeds are the monuments of brave men.

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If a man has ten good qualities and one bad one, to look at the ten and forget the one, and if a man has ten bad qualities and one good one, to look at the one and forget the ten.

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Tags : Abdu'l-Bahá Quotes , Life Quotes , Men Quotes

The man has not the power to create life. Therefore, he has not either, the right to destroy it.

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When under the influence of certain (or some) reasons (or causes) (alcohol, war, etc - added Spir here) the low instincts are unbridled (or unrestrained), the brute appears (or come forward, "apparait", Fr.) and rule over (or dominate), stifling every ("toute", Fr.) noble, generous impulse; it is then the ruin (or downfall or decline) of any humanity in man.

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Moral character is assessed not by what a man knows but by what he loves

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A man of maxims only is like a Cyclops with one eye, and that in the back of his head.

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If Islam despises Christianity, it has a thousandfold right to do so: Islam at least assumes that it is dealing with men.

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The man who is content to live alone is either a beast or a god.

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I prefer the man who calls his nonsense a mystery to him who who pretends it is a weighed, measured, analyzed fact.

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A hungry man is not a free man.

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