Quotes with gentle-man

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  • Joseph Conrad To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Adlai Stevenson II To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • George Eliot To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved to be called by no meaner name than diplomacy.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Henry David Thoreau To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Mark Twain To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Albert Camus To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Abraham Cowley To be a husbandman, is but a retreat from the city; to be a philosopher, from the world; or rather, a retreat from the world, as it is man's, into the world, as it is God's.
    Of Agriculture.
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • W. E. B. Du Bois To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.
    W. E. B. Du Bois
    American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist and writer (1868 - 1963)
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  • Marlene Dietrich To be completely woman you need a master, and in him a compass for your life. You need a man you can look up to and respect. If you dethrone him it's no wonder that you are discontented, and discontented women are not loved for long.
    Marlene Dietrich
    German-born American Film Actor (1901 - 1992)
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  • Sophocles To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.
    Sophocles
    Greek poet (496 - 406)
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  • Helen Rowland To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • William Shakespeare To be honest, as this world goes, is to be. One man picked out of ten thousand.
    Hamlet 2,2
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Samuel Johnson To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Golda Meir To be successful, a woman has to be better at her job than a man.
    Golda Meir
    Prime Minister of Israel (1898 - 1978)
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  • Elizabeth Gaskell To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!
    Elizabeth Gaskell
    British writer (1810 - 1865)
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  • William Shakespeare To be wise and love exceeds man's might.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Jane Harrison To be womanly is one thing, and one only; it is to be sensitive to man, to be highly endowed with the sex instinct; to be manly is to be sensitive to woman.
    Jane Harrison
    British classical scholar and linguist
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  • Henry Drummond To become Christ-like is the only thing in the whole world worth caring for, the thing before which every ambition of man is folly and all lower achievement vain.
    Henry Drummond
    Scottish evangelist, biologist, writer and lecturer (1786 - 1860)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi To believe what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dignity of man.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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