Quotes with gentle-man

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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Bertrand Russell Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation. When a man tells you that he knows the exact truth about anything, you are safe in inferring that he is an inexact man.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • William Blake Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Robert Browning Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do.
    Robert Browning
    English poet (1812 - 1889)
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  • Buzz Aldrin America can take man to the moon, and America can take men to Mars - and beyond.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • W. H. Auden America has always been a country of amateurs where the professional, that is to say, the man who claims authority as a member of an élite which knows the law in some field or other, is an object of distrust and resentment.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Woodrow Wilson America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • Ilka Chase America's best buy is a telephone call to the right man.
    Ilka Chase
    American actress, radio host, and novelist (1900 - 1978)
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  • Malcolm X America's greatest crime against the black man was not slavery or lynching, but that he was taught to wear a mask of self-hate and self-doubt.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Among the very rich you will never find a really generous man, even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away; they are egoistic, secretive, dry as old bones. To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Lord Chesterfield An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • A. P. Herbert An act of God was defined as ''something which no reasonable man could have expected.''
    A. P. Herbert
    English humorist, novelist and playwright (1890 - 1971)
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  • Richard Burton An actor is something less than a man, while an actress is something more than a woman.
    Richard Burton
    Welsh actor (1925 - 1984)
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  • William Butler Yeats An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • Publilius Syrus An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason.
    Publilius Syrus
    Syrian poet (85 - 43)
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  • Joseph Conrad An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Francis Thompson An atheist is a man who believes himself an accident.
    Francis Thompson
    English poet and mystic (1859 - 1907)
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  • John Buchan An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.
    John Buchan
    Scottish novelist, historian, and Unionist (1875 - 1940)
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  • Dwight D. Eisenhower An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame - Southern Methodist University game and doesn't care who wins.
    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    American president (1890 - 1969)
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  • Gabriel Garcia Marquez An early-rising man... a good spouse but a bad husband.
    Gabriel Garcia Marquez
    Colombian writer (1927 - 2014)
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