Quotes with gentle-man

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  • Carlos Ruiz Zafon The haunting of history is ever present in Barcelona. I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me, Madrid is a man and Barcelona is a woman. And it's a woman who's extremely vain.
    Carlos Ruiz Zafon
    Spanish novelist (1964 - 2020)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Benjamin Franklin The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith The heart of every man lies open to the shafts of correction if the archer can take proper aim.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • John Ruskin The higher a man stands, the more the word ''vulgar'' becomes unintelligible to him.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Leon Trotsky The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature, in society, in man himself.
    Leon Trotsky
    Russian revolutionary and writer (1879 - 1940)
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  • Emma Goldman The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul.
    Emma Goldman
    American anarchist (1869 - 1940)
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  • Charles Péguy The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful must take himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable, renascent errors.
    Charles Péguy
    French writer and poet (1873 - 1914)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence The horse, the horse! The symbol of surging potency and power of movement, of action, in man.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Anais Nin The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless.
    Anais Nin
    French-born American Novelist, Dancer (1903 - 1977)
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  • Paracelsus The human spirit is so great a thing that no man can express it; could we rightly comprehend the mind of man nothing would be impossible to us upon the earth.
    Paracelsus
    Swiss doctor and alchemist, born Theophrastus von Hohenheim (1493 - 1541)
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  • Lyndon B. Johnson The hungry world cannot be fed until and unless the growth of its resources and the growth of its population come into balance. Each man and woman-and each nation - must make decisions of conscience and policy in the face of this great problem.
    Lyndon B. Johnson
    American president (1908 - 1973)
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  • John W. Gardner The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselves is an amiable mediocrity. Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life.
    John W. Gardner
    American Educator, Social Activist (1912 - 2002)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken The idea that leisure is of value in itself is only conditionally true. The average man simply spends his leisure as a dog spends it. His recreations are all puerile, and the time supposed to benefit him really only stupefies him.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung The images of the unconscious place a great responsibility upon a man. Failure to understand them, or a shirking of ethical responsibility, deprives him of his wholeness and imposes a painful fragmentariness on his life.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Napoleon Hill The imagination is literally the workshop wherein are fashioned all plans created by man.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Wallace Stevens The imagination is man's power over nature.
    Wallace Stevens
    American poet (1879 - 1955)
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  • John Keats The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy; but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted: thence proceeds mawkishness.
    John Keats
    English poet (1795 - 1821)
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  • Nelson Algren The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy -yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.
    Nelson Algren
    American writer (1909 - 1981)
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