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  • To give money to a sufferer is only a come-off. It is only a postponement of the real payment, a bribe paid for silence, a creditsystem in which a paper promise to pay answers for the time instead of liquidation. We owe to man higher succors than food and fire. We owe to man.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Real Quotes , Men Quotes
  • The common people are but ill judges of a man's merits; they are slaves to fame, and their eyes are dazzled with the pomp of titles and large retinue. No wonder, then, that they bestow their honors on those who least deserve them.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Horace Quotes , Eye Quotes , Men Quotes
  • Some men make a womanish complaint that it is a great misfortune to die before our time. I would ask what time? Is it that of Nature? But she, indeed, has lent us life, as we do a sum of money, only no certain day is fixed for payment. What reason then to complain if she demands it at pleasure, since it was on this condition that you received it.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Death Quotes , Men Quotes
  • An observer of men who finds himself steadily repelled by some apparently trifling thing in a stranger is right to give it great weight. It may be the clue to the whole mystery. A hair or two will show where a lion is hidden. A very little key will open a very heavy door.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Men Quotes , Keys Quotes
  • If there is one thing that is really cheerful in the world, it is cheerfulness. I have noticed it often. And I have noticed that when a man is right down cheerful, he is seldom unhappy for the time being. Such is the nature of man.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Men Quotes , Unhappy Quotes