Quotes with down-on-his-luck

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  • William Blake No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Friedrich von Schiller No cause has he to say his doom is harsh, who's made the master of his destiny.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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  • C. S. Lewis No Christian and, indeed, no historian could accept the epigram which defines religion as 'what a man does with his solitude.
    The Weight of Glory
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • C. M. Ward No Christian has ever been known to recant on his death bed.
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  • Friedrich von Schiller No doubt the artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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  • Albert Claude No doubt, man will continue to weigh and to measure, watch himself grow, and his Universe around him and with him, according to the ever growing powers of his tools.
    Albert Claude
    Belgian-American cell biologist and doctor (1899 - 1983)
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  • William Somerset Maugham No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • St. Augustine of Hippo No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.
    St. Augustine of Hippo
    Roman African Christian theologian and philosopher (354 - 430)
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  • George Bernard Shaw No king on earth is as safe in his job as a Trade Union official. There is only one thing that can get him sacked; and that is drink. Not even that, as long as he doesn't actually fall down.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero No liberal man would impute a charge of unsteadiness to another for having changed his opinion.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Marquis de Sade No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • Gloria Steinem No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson No man can do anything well, who does not esteem his work to be of importance.
    Nature
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • B. C. Forbes No man can fight his way to the top and stay at the top without exercising the fullest measure of grit, courage, determination, resolution. Every man who gets anywhere does so because he has first firmly resolved to progress in the world and then has enough stick-to-it-tiveness to transform his resolution into reality. Without resolution, no man can win any worthwhile place among his fellow men.
    B. C. Forbes
    American Publisher (1880 - 1954)
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  • George Jean Nathan No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.
    George Jean Nathan
    American criticus (1882 - 1958)
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  • Woodrow Wilson No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • Alfred Lord Tennyson No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.
    Alfred Lord Tennyson
    English poet (1809 - 1892)
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  • Groucho Marx No man goes before his time - unless the boss leaves early.
    Groucho Marx
    American comic actor (1890 - 1977)
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  • Phillips Brooks No man has come to true greatness who has not felt that his life belongs to his race, and that which God gives to him, He gives him for mankind.
    Phillips Brooks
    American Minister, Poet (1835 - 1893)
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  • James Baldwin No man is a devil in his own mind.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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