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  • Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense. There are forty men of wit for one man of sense; and he that will carry nothing about him but gold, will be every day at a loss for want of readier change.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Loss Quotes , Men Quotes
  • Nothing is more stimulating and more salutary to (or for) the inner (or inward) development than the exemple of men devoted to the good. It is in the company of men pursuing a same ideal that the still weavering (or unsteady) soul can set oneself ("se fixer", Fr) and stick to (or attach to) everything that is noble and generous.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : African Spir Quotes , Men Quotes , Soul Quotes
  • A man whose desire is to be something separate from himself, to be a member of Parliament, or a successful grocer, or a prominent solicitor, or a judge, or something equally tedious, invariably succeeds in being what he wants to be. That is his punishment. Those who want a mask have to wear it.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Successful Quotes , Men Quotes
  • What the world wants today is twenty men and women who can dare to stand in the street yonder and say that they possess nothing but God. Who will go? Why should one fear? If this is true, what else could matter? If it is not true, what do our lives matter?
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Men Quotes , Twenties Quotes
  • These are my politics: to change what we can; to better what we can; but still to bear in mind that man is but a devil weakly fettered by some generous beliefs and impositions; and for no word however sounding, and no cause however just and pious, to relax the stricture on these bonds.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes , Men Quotes , Generosity Quotes
  • The point, which can hardly be repeated too often, is that differentiation is not separation. The head and the feet are different, but not separate, and though man is not connected to the universe by exactly the same physical relation as branch to tree or feet to head, he is nonetheless connected - and by physical relations of fascinating complexity.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Motivational Quotes , Men Quotes
  • Man is a flux of states of consciousness, a flow of passing thoughts, each thought of self another self, a myriad thoughts, a myriad selves, a continual becoming but never being, a will-of-the-wisp flitting of ghosts in ghostland.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Jack London Quotes , Men Quotes , Self Quotes
  • For out of such an ungoverned populace one is usually chosen as a leader, someone bold and unscrupulous who curries favor with the people by giving them other men's property. To such a man the protection of public office is given, and continually renewed. He emerges as a tyrant over the very people who raised him to power.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Men Quotes , Tyrants Quotes