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  • Henry Fielding He in a few minutes ravished this fair creature, or at least would have ravished her, if she had not, by a timely compliance, prevented him.
    Henry Fielding
    English writer (1707 - 1754)
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  • Epictetus He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • Epictetus He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • Johann Kaspar Lavater He is incapable of truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the good actions of others.
    Johann Kaspar Lavater
    Swiss theologist and mysticist (1741 - 1801)
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  • Thomas Paine He is not affected by the reality of distress touching his heart, but by the showy resemblance of it striking his imagination. He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • William Shakespeare He is not great who is not greatly good.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Buddha He is not the same, nor is he another.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • William Ellery Channing He is to be educated not because he's to make shoes, nails, and pins, but because he is a man.
    William Ellery Channing
    American Unitarian minister (1780 - 1842)
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  • Ben Jonson He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Jean de la Fontaine He knows the universe and does not know himself.
    Jean de la Fontaine
    French writer (1621 - 1695)
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  • James Russell Lowell He mastered whatever was not worth the knowing.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Bram Stoker He may not enter anywhere at the first, unless there be some one of the household who bid him to come, though afterwards he can come as he please.
    Bram Stoker
    Irish author (1847 - 1912)
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  • Anthony Trollope He must have known me if he had seen me as he was wont to see me, for he was in the habit of flogging me constantly. Perhaps he did not recognize me by my face.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • Bob Dylan He not busy being born is busy dying.
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Hector Hugh Munro He spends his life explaining from his pulpit that the glory of Christianity consists in the fact that though it is not true it has been found necessary to invent it.
    Hector Hugh Munro
    British Novelist, Writer (1870 - 1916)
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  • Norman Douglas He talks about the Scylla of Atheism and the Charybdis of Christianity - a state of mind which, by the way, is not conducive to bold navigation.
    Norman Douglas
    British Author (1868 - 1952)
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  • Henry Fielding He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.
    Henry Fielding
    English writer (1707 - 1754)
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  • Andrew Carnegie He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.
    Andrew Carnegie
    American industrialist (1835 - 1919)
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  • Sir Walter Raleigh He that doth not as other men do, but endeavoureth that which ought to be done, shall thereby rather incur peril than preservation; for who so laboreth to be sincerely perfect and good shall necessarily perish, living among men that are generally evil.
    Sir Walter Raleigh
    British courtier, writer (1552 - 1618)
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