Quotes with gentle-man

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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Nature is a revelation of God; Art a revelation of man.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Eric Hoffer Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine. To create something in the image of nature is to create a machine, and it was by learning the inner working of nature that man became a builder of machines.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is always right, and the errors are always those of man.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought. Every man is the lord of a realm beside which the earthly empire of the Czar is but a petty state, a hummock left by the ice.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Thomas Alva Edison Nearly every man who develops an idea works at it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then gets discouraged. that's not the place to become discouraged.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • Daniel Defoe Necessity makes a honest man a knave.
    Daniel Defoe
    English writer (1660 - 1731)
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  • Bertrand Russell Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
    An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish: A Hilarious Catalogue of Organized and Individual Stupidity
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Dwight D. Eisenhower Neither a wise nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    American president (1890 - 1969)
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  • Fjodor M. Dostojewski Neither man or nation can exist without a sublime idea.
    Fjodor M. Dostojewski
    Russisch writer (1821 - 1881)
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  • Woodrow Wilson Never attempt to murder a man who is committing suicide.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • Louis Ferdinand Céline Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's ''yes,'' all's well. That is enough.
    Louis Ferdinand Céline
    French writer (1894 - 1961)
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  • Baltasar Gracián Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.
    Baltasar Gracián
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Lewis E. Lawes Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes.
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  • Robert Southey Never let any man imagine that he can pursue a good end by evil means, without sinning against his own soul! Any other issue is doubtful; the evil effect on himself is certain.
    Robert Southey
    British writer (1774 - 1843)
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  • Marquis de Sade Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man's imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices. The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • Nelson Algren Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom s. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.
    Nelson Algren
    American writer (1909 - 1981)
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