Plato Quotes, Men Quotes, Water Of Life Quotes

A man's duty is to find out where the truth is, or if he cannot, at least to take the best possible human doctrine and the hardest to disprove, and to ride on this like a raft over the waters of life.

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The novel is the one bright book of life. Books are not life. They are only tremulations on the ether. But the novel as a tremulation can make the whole man alive tremble.

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The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.

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It belongs to small-mindedness to be unable to bear either honor or dishonor, either good fortune or bad, but to be filled with conceit when honored and puffed up by trifling good fortune, and to be unable to bear even the smallest dishonor and to deem any chance failure a great misfortune, and to be distressed and annonyed at everything. Moreover the small-minded man is the sort of person to call all slights an insult and dishonor, even those that are due to ignorance or forgetfulness. Small-mindedness is accompanied by pettiness, querulousness, pessimism and self-abasement.

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He [Lincoln] had mastered it {the Bible] absolutely...mastered it so that he became almost 'a man of one Book', who knew that Book and who instinctively put into practice what he had been taught therein.

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I seemed to be upon the verge of comprehension, without the power to comprehend as men, at time, find themselves upon the brink of rememberance, without being able, in the end, to remember.

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It is not for its own sake that men desire money, but for the sake of what they can purchase with it.

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I am an old man who will live until I die," Anselmo said.

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There are men and women still on the streets, and that's all they are saying Can you spare a quarter? I come from a crowd of people who were current on the outlook on life, who were social and knew where they were and had some input into how things seemed to be.

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Tags : Abbey Lincoln Quotes , Men Quotes , Outlook On Life Quotes

In order to increase his pleasures, man has intentionally added to the number and pressure of his needs, which in their original state were not much more difficult to satisfy than those of the brute. Hence luxury in all its forms; delicate food, the use of tobacco and opium, spirituous liquors, fine clothes, and the thousand and one things that he considers necessary to his existence.

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Any man who tries to be good all the time is bound to come to ruin among the great number who are not good.

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Tags : Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes , Men Quotes , Numbers Quotes

If in 100 years I am only known as the man who invented Sherlock Holmes then I will have considered my life a failure.

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There is only one sin and it is: weakness. When I was a boy, I read Milton's Paradise Lost. The only good man I had any respect for was Satan. The only saint is that person who never weakens, faces everything, and determines die game.

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As the whirlwind in its fury teareth up trees, and deformeth the face of nature, or as an earthquake in its convulsions overturneth whole cities; so the rage of an angry man throweth mischief around him.

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For what a man would like to be true, that he more readily believes.

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A man may have no bad habits and have worse

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There are a few editor men with whom I am privileged to come in contact. It has not been long since it was their habit to come in contact with me. There is a difference.

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There was a man who sold a hyena skin while the beast still lived and who was killed in hunting it.

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The true poet is all the time a visionary and whether with friends or not, as much alone as a man on his death bed.

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Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Men Quotes , Poetry Quotes

For a man to become a poet (witness Petrarch and Dante), he must be in love, or miserable.

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