Quotes with gentle-man

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• Major North has had for years complete power over these Indians and can do more with them than any man living.

  The Life of Hon. William F. Cody, Known as Buffalo Bill, the Famous Hunter, Scout, and Guide: An Autobiography (1978 edition), U of Nebraska Press

  Buffalo Bill
  American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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• Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.

  Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
  French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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• Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

  Thomas Carlyle
  Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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• Malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.

  A Shropshire Lad (1896)

  A. E. Housman
  British poet (1859 - 1936)
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• Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.

  Martin Heidegger
  German philosopher (1889 - 1976)
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• Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

  Sir William Temple
  British Diplomat, Essayist (1628 - 1699)
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• Man appears for a little while to laugh and weep, to work and play, and then to go to make room for those who shall follow him in the never-ending cycle.

  A. W. Tozer
  American Christian pastor, preacher and author
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• Man appoints, and God disappoints.

  Miguel de Cervantes
  Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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• Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

  Aldous Huxley
  English writer (1894 - 1963)
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• Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.

  Nicolas Chamfort
  French writer, journalist and playwright (1741 - 1794)
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• Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, but according to his pleasure and interests. It is for this reason that most truths are nothing but prejudices.

  Remy de Gourmont
  French writer, poet and philosopher (1858 - 1915)
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• Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
  

  Will Durant
  American writer, historian, and philosopher (1885 - 1981)
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• Man becomes greater in proportion to knowing himself and his faculties. Let him become conscious of what he is and he will soon also learn what he should be.

  Felix E. Schelling
   
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• Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.

  G. C. Lichtenberg
  German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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• Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
  

  William James
  American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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• Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.

  Oscar Wilde
  Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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• Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.

  George Bernard Shaw
  Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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• Man cannot aspire if he looked down; if he rise, he must look up.

  Samuel Smiles
  Scottish writer (1812 - 1904)
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• Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

  André Gide
  French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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• Man cannot live by incompetence alone.

  Laurence J. Peter
  Canadian educator and hierarchiologist (1919 - 1990)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• accomplishments
• never-ending
• unattainable
• incompetence
• succession
• associates

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