Quotes with creature

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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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  • John Donne He must pull out his own eyes, and see no creature, before he can say, he sees no God; He must be no man, and quench his reasonable soul, before he can say to himself, there is no God.
    John Donne
    English poet (1572 - 1631)
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  • Søren Kierkegaard How ironical that it is by means of speech that man can degrade himself below the level of dumb creation - for a chatterbox is truly of a lower category than a dumb creature.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Abigail Adams I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.
    Abigail Adams
    Wife of John Adams (1744 - 1818)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • William Penn I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
    William Penn
    English religious leader, founder of Pennsylvania (1644 - 1718)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche I fear animals regard man as a creature of their own kind which has in a highly dangerous fashion lost its healthy animal reason - as the mad animal, as the laughing animal, as the weeping animal, as the unhappy animal.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Bruce Barton If you have anything really valuable to contribute to the world it will come through the expression of your own personality, that single spark of divinity that sets you off and makes you different from every other living creature.
    Its a Good Old World: Being a Collection of Little Essays on Various Subjects of Human Interest (1920)
    Bruce Barton
    American Author, Advertising Executive (1886 - 1967)
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  • Archibald Alexander If you were not a sinful, polluted, helpless, and miserable creature, this Savior would not be suited to you, and you would not be comprehended in his gracious invitations to the children of men.
    Archibald Alexander
    American Presbyterian theologian and professor (1772 - 1851)
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  • Thomas à Kempis If your heart were sincere and upright, every creature would be unto you a looking-glass of life and a book of holy doctrine.
    Thomas à Kempis
    Dutch medieval Augustinian canon, writer and mystic (1380 - 1471)
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  • Emma Goldman It is essential that we realize once and for all that man is much more of a sex creature than a moral creature. The former is inherent, the other is grafted on.
    Emma Goldman
    American anarchist (1869 - 1940)
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  • Mark Twain Man is a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but principally by catch words.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Man is emphatically a proselytizing creature.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • John Donne Man is not only a contributory creature, but a total creature; he does not only make one, but he is all; he is not a piece of the world, but the world itself; and next to the glory of God, the reason why there is a world.
    John Donne
    English poet (1572 - 1631)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • George Orwell Man is the only creature that consumes without producing.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Eric Hoffer Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Mark Twain Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Albert Camus Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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