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  • He sees with amazement that our defeats are but the stepping stones to victory and that all his victories are stepping stones to ruin. It was apparent to me that this bad man saw quite clearly the shadow of slowly and remorselessly approaching doom, and he railed at fortune for mocking him with the glitter of fleeting success.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , War Quotes , Men Quotes
  • Men will not understand ... that when they fulfil their duties to men, they fulfil thereby God's commandments; that they are consequently always in the service of God, as long as their actions are moral, and that it is absolutely impossible to serve God otherwise.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Immanuel Kant Quotes , Men Quotes , Long Quotes
  • We commonly say that the rich man can speak the truth, can afford honesty, can afford independence of opinion and action;--and that is the theory of nobility. But it is the rich man in a true sense, that is to say, not the man of large income and large expenditure, but solely the man whose outlay is less than his income and is steadily kept so.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Honesty Quotes , Men Quotes
  • The animal tends to eat with his stomach, and the man with his brain. When the animal's stomach is full, he stops eating, but the man is never sure when to stop. When he has eaten as much as his belly can take, he still feels empty, he still feels an urge for further gratification.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Animal Quotes , Men Quotes
  • In dealing with the State, we ought to remember that its institutions are not aboriginal, though they existed before we were born; that they are not superior to the citizen; that every one of them was once the act of a single man; every law and usage was a man's expedient to meet a particular case; that they all are imitable, all alterable; we may make as good; we may make better.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Men Quotes , Law Quotes
  • It is easy to see that a greater self-reliance must work a revolution in all the offices and relations of men; in their religion; in their education; in their pursuits; their modes of living; their association; in their property; in their speculative views.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Men Quotes , Self Quotes