John Milton Quotes, Reading Quotes, Men Quotes

Promiscuous reading is necessary to the constituting of human nature. The attempt to keep out evil doctrine by licensing is like the exploit of that gallant man who thought to keep out the crows by shutting the park gate.

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It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.

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We must remember not to judge any public servant by any one act, and especially should we beware of attacking the men who are merely the occasions and not the cause of disaster.

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A man's true wealth hereafter is the good he has done to his fellowmen.

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Men are like bank accounts. Without a lot of money they don't generate a lot of interest.

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The world is full of judgment-days, and into every assembly that a man enters, in every action he attempts, he is gauged and stamped.

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Men who believe that, through some exceptional grace or good fortune, they have found God, feel little need of culture.

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Not only is the old man twice a child, but also the man who is drunk.

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The human understanding is no dry light, but receives an infusion from the will and affections... What a man had rather were true he more readily believes.

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Poetry strengthens that faculty which is the organ of the moral nature of man, in the same manner as exercise strengthens a limb.

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Man is man so long as he is struggling to rise above nature, and this nature is both internal and external.

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Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.

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Man is a carnivorous production, And must have meals, at least one meal a day; He cannot live, like woodcocks, upon suction, But, like the shark and tiger, must have prey; Although his anatomical construction Bears vegetables, in a grumbling way, Your laboring people think beyond all question, Beef, veal, and mutton better for digestion.

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A man may conquer a million men in battle but one who conquers himself is, indeed, the greatest of conquerors.

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Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare; And beauty draws us with a single hair.

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The broad effects which can be obtained by punishment in man and beast, are the increase of fear, the sharpening of the sense of cunning, the mastery of the desires; so it is that punishment tames man, but does not make him "better.".

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When it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare as really good ones.

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Nor is he the wisest man who never proved himself a fool.

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That man is guilty of impertinence who considers not the circumstances of time, or engrosses the conversation, or makes himself the subject of his discourse, or pays no regard to the company he is in.

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How well I remember the aged poet Sophocles, when in answer to the question, "How does love suit with age, Sophocles - are you still the man you were?" he replied, "Peace, most gladly have I escaped the thing of which you speak; I feel as if I had escaped from a mad and furious master."

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