Honore De Balzac Quotes, Men Quotes, Race Quotes

It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.

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We have passed the age of the demagogue, the man who has little to say and says it loud. We have come to the age of the mystagogue or don, the man who has nothing to say, but says it softly and impressively in an indistinct whisper.

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Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man.

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I expect nothing of man, and disown the race. The only folly is expecting what is never attained; man is most contemptible when compared with his own pretensions. It is better to laugh at man from outside the universe, than to weep for him within.

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Disobedience is man's original virtue.

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There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag...We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language...and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.

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The superior man loves his soul; the inferior man loves his property.

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A man is called affected, nowadays, if he dresses as he likes to dress. But in doing that he is acting in a perfectly natural manner. Affectation, in such matters, consists in dressing according to the views of one's neighbour, whose views, as they are the views of the majority, will probably be extremely stupid.

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To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.

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Glendower: I can call the spirits from the vasty deep. Hotspur: Why, so can I, or so can any man; But will they come, when you do call for them?

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If a man cannot feel the power of God when he looks upon the stars, then I doubt whether he is capable of any feeling at all.

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It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only.

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The world is a looking glass. It gives back to every man a true reflection of his own thoughts. Rule your mind or it will rule you.

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Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

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The great mountain must collapse, the mighty beam must break and the wise man wither like a plant.

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What is marriage but the renunciation of unchastity? The savage does not marry. Man marries because he renounces.

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If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular thing, and every thing, and every man.

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A man who is used to acting in one way never changes; he must come to ruin when the times, in changing, no longer are in harmony with his ways.

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For it was by the Will of God that men were made of a certain bodily shape, were given their natures and their faculties. Whoever destroys His work wages war against God's Creation and God's Will.

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Take up the White Man's burden -- send forth the best ye breed -- go, bind your sons to exile to serve your captives need.

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