Quotes with fellow-men

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  • Pearl S. Buck Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds.
    Pearl S. Buck
    American novelist (1892 - 1973)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Most men would feel insulted if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall, and then in throwing them back, merely that they might earn their wages. But many are no more worthily employed now.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Bruce Barton Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.
    Bruce Barton
    American Author, Advertising Executive (1886 - 1967)
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  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Nature has not placed us in an inferior rank to men, no more than the females of other animals, where we see no distinction of capacity, though I am persuaded if there was a commonwealth of rational horses... it would be an established maxim amongst them that a mare could not be taught to pace.
    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
    English writer (1689 - 1762)
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  • Bell Hooks No other group in America has so had their identity socialized out of existence as have black women... When black people are talked about the focus tends to be on black men; and when women are talked about the focus tends to be on white women.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    American statesman (1882 - 1945)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds. Each man seeks those of different quality from his own, and such as are good of their kind; that is, he seeks other men, and the rest.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • L'Chiam Our great men have written words of wisdom to be used when hardship must be faced. Life obliges us with hardship so the words of wisdom shouldn't go to waste.
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  • Luther Burbank Our lives as we lead them as passed on to others, whether in physical or mental forms, tingeing all future lives together. This should be enough for one who lives for truth and service to his fellow passengers on the way.
    Luther Burbank
    American botanist, horticulturist and pioneer (1849 - 1926)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • George Allen People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
    George Allen
    American senator and politician (1952 - )
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Lincoln Steffens Somebody must take a chance. The monkeys who became men, and the monkeys who didn't are still jumping around in trees making faces at the monkeys who did.
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  • George Bernard Shaw The American Constitution, one of the few modern political documents drawn up by men who were forced by the sternest circumstances to think out what they really had to face, instead of chopping logic in a university classroom.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Walter Lippmann The disesteem into which moralists have fallen is due at bottom to their failure to see that in an age like this one the function of the moralist is not to exhort men to be good but to elucidate what the good is. The problem of sanctions is secondary.
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • John Ruskin The great cry that rises from all our manufacturing cities, louder than the furnace blast, is all in very deed for this - that we manufacture everything there except men.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld The happiness or unhappiness of men depends as much on their humors as on fortune.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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