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The world is a great volume, and man the index of that book; even in the body of man, you may turn to the whole world.

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Suppose, then, that all men were sick or deranged, save one or two of them who were healthy and of right mind. It would then be the latter two who would be thought to be sick and deranged and the former not!

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Every good quality runs into a defect; economy borders on avarice, the generous are not far from the prodigal, the brave man is close to the bully; he who is very pious is slightly sanctimonious; there are just as many vices to virtue as there are holes in the mantle of Diogenes.

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I think it is absurd to give such tremendous importance to the distinctions between men and women. When I meet someone I regard that person as a human being. I do not say "This is a man; this is a woman."

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The nature of Christ is, I grant it, from one end to another, a web of mysteries; but this mysteriousness does not correspond to the difficulties which all existence contains. Let it be rejected, and the whole world is an enigma; let it be accepted, and we possess a wonderful explanation of the history of man.

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To sit and contemplate - to remember the faces of women without desire, to be pleased by the great deeds of men without envy, to be everything and everywhere in sympathy and yet content to remain where and what you are.

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When a man thinks happily, he finds no foot-track in the field he traverses. All spontaneous thought is irrespective of all else.

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All privileges based on wealth, and all emnity to honest men merely because they are wealthy, are un-American.

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Common men talk bagfuls of religion but do not practise even a grain of it. The wise man speaks a little, even though his whole life is religion expressed in action.

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I am going to hold a pistol to the head of the Modern Man. But I shall not use it to kill him–only to bring him to life.

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I fail to see what fun, what satisfaction / A God can find in laughing at how badly / Men fumble at the possibilities.

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O heart, we are old; The living beauty is for younger men: We cannot pay its tribute of wild tears.

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We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.

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Man is more sensitive to the contempt that others feel towards him than to the contempt that he feels towards himself.

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O, how wretched is that poor man that hangs on princes' favors.

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The nation is divided, half patriots and half traitors, and no man can tell which from which.

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Men of character are the conscience of the society to which they belong.

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Give me few men and women who are pure and selfless and I shall shake the world.

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I grow in worth, and wit, and sense, Unboding critic-pen, Or that eternal want of pence, Which vexes public men.

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Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Men Quotes , Vex Quotes

Thou madest man, he knows not why, he thinks he was not made to die.

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