Quotes with gentle-man

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  • Robert Louis Stevenson The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his mouth, and yet come out of that room a disloyal friend or a vile calumniator.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Ashley Montagu The cultured man is an artist, an artist in humanity.
    Ashley Montagu
    British-American anthropologist (1905 - 1999)
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  • Adam Ferguson The cunning man uses deceit, but the more cunning man shuns deception.
    Adam Ferguson
    Scottish philosopher and historian (1723 - 1816)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken The curse of man, and the cause of nearly all his woe, is his stupendous capacity for believing the incredible.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • John W. Gardner The cynic says, ''One man can't do anything.'' I say, ''Only one man can do anything.''
    John W. Gardner
    American Educator, Social Activist (1912 - 2002)
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  • Horace Greeley The darkest day of any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.
    Horace Greeley
    American editor (1811 - 1872)
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  • Susan B. Anthony The day may be approaching when the whole world will recognize woman as the equal of man.
    Susan B. Anthony
    American women's rights activist (1820 - 1906)
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  • A. N. Wilson The death of any man aged 56 is very sad for his widow and family. And no one would deny that Steve Jobs was a brilliant and highly innovative technician, with great business flair and marketing ability.
    A. N. Wilson
    English writer and columnist (1950 - )
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche The desire to create continually is vulgar and betrays jealousy, envy, ambition. If one is something one really does not need to make anything - and one nonetheless does very much. There exists above the ''productive'' man a yet higher species.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Sir William Osler The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.
    Sir William Osler
    Canadian Physician (1849 - 1919)
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  • Herodotus The destiny of man is in his own soul
    Herodotus
    Greek historian (484 - 425)
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  • William James The difference between a good man and a bad is the choice of the cause.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Lord Chesterfield The difference between a man of sense and a fop is that the fop values himself upon his dress; and the man of sense laughs at it, at the same time he knows he must not neglect it.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Benjamin Franklin The discontented man finds no easy chair.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton The discovery of this strange society was a curiously refreshing thing; to realize that there were ten new trades in the world was like looking at the first ship or the first plough. It made a man feel what he should feel, that he was still in the childhood of the world.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • George Santayana The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Thomas Arnold The distinction between Christianity and all other systems of religion consists largely in this, that in these other men are found seeking after God, while Christianity is God seeking after man.
    Thomas Arnold
    English educator and historian (1795 - 1842)
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