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  • When my mouth shall be filled with dust, and the worm shall feed, and feed sweetly upon me, when the ambitious man shall have no satisfaction if the poorest alive tread upon him, nor the poorest receive any contentment in being made equal to princes, for they shall be equal but in dust.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : John Donne Quotes , Men Quotes , Dust Quotes
  • I hold that if the Almighty had ever made a set of men that should do all the eating and none of the work, he would have made them with mouths only and no hands, and if he had ever made another class that he intended should do all the work and none of the eating, he would have made them without mouths and with all hands.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Men Quotes , Hands Quotes
  • Not very long ago some one invented the assertion that there were only "Four Hundred" people in New York City who were really worth noticing. But a wiser man has arisen - the census taker - and his larger estimate of human interest has been preferred in marking out the field of these little stories of the "Four Million.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : O. Henry Quotes , New York Quotes , Men Quotes
  • As to the fable that there are Antipodes, that is to say, men on the opposite side of the earth where the sun rises when it sets to us, men who walk with their feet opposite ours, that is on no ground credible. Even if some unknown landmass is there, and not just ocean, there was only one pair of original ancestors, and it is inconceivable that such distant regions should have been peopled by Adam's descendants.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Ocean Quotes , Men Quotes
  • A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth; this has been reversed. Nowadays the part of a man that a man does assert is exactly the part he ought not to assert - himself. The part he doubts is exactly the part he ought not to doubt - the Divine Reason.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Men Quotes , Doubt Quotes
  • ...the life which is best for men, both separately, as individuals, and in the mass, as states, is the life which has virtue sufficiently supported by material resources to facilitate participation in the actions that virtue calls for.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Men Quotes , Politics Quotes