Quotes with gentle-man

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  • Benjamin Disraeli The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Thomas Hobbes The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.
    Thomas Hobbes
    British philosopher (1588 - 1679)
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  • Bhagavad Gita The senses have been conditioned by attraction to the pleasant and aversion to the unpleasant: a man should not be ruled by them; they are obstacles in his path.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • George Bernard Shaw The seven deadly sins... food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from Man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the millstones are lifted.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Walt Whitman The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Benjamin Tucker The shortest way to change a radical into a conservative, a liberal into a tyrant, a man into a beast, is to give him power over his fellows.
    Benjamin Tucker
    American anarchist and socialist (1854 - 1939)
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  • Robert Lynd The shy man usually finds that he has been shy without a cause, and that, in practice, no one takes the slightest notice of him.
    Robert Lynd
    American sociologist (1892 - 1970)
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  • Kahlil Gibran The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain.
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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  • John Ruskin The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortunes.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • John Dryden The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
    John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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  • William Shakespeare The soul of this man is his clothes.
    All's well that ends well
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • William Shakespeare The soul of this man is in his clothes.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence The source of all life and knowledge is in man and woman, and the source of all living is in the interchange and the meeting and mingling of these two: man-life and woman-life, man-knowledge and woman-knowledge, man-being and woman-being.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Carl Honore The spark for 'In Praise of Slowness' came when I began reading to my children. Every parent knows that kids like their bedtime stories read at a gentle, meandering pace. But I used to be too fast to slow down with the Brothers Grimm. I would zoom through the classic fairy tales, skipping lines, paragraphs, whole pages.
    Carl Honore
    Canadian journalist (1967 - )
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  • Dwight D. Eisenhower The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth
    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    American president (1890 - 1969)
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  • George Santayana The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Ella Wheeler Wilcox The splendid discontent of God With chaos made the world. And from the discontent of man The worlds best progress springs.
    Ella Wheeler Wilcox
    American Poet, Journalist (1850 - 1919)
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  • Earl Warren The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures.
    Earl Warren
    American jurist and politician (1891 - 1974)
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  • Aravind Adiga The story of a poor man's life is written on his body, in a sharp pen.
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    Aravind Adiga
    Indo-Australian writer and journalist (1974 - )
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