Quotes with gentle-man

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  • Carlos Santana Blues was my first love. It was the first thing where I said Oh man, this is the stuff. It just sounded so raw and honest, gut-bucket honest. From then I started rebelling.
    Carlos Santana
    Mexican and American guitarist (1947 - )
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Books are fatal: they are the curse of the human race. Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense. The greatest misfortune that ever befell man was the invention of printing.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Bruce Springsteen Born down in a dead man's town;
    The first kick I took was when I hit the ground.
    You end up like a dog that's been beat too much
    'Til you spend half your life just covering up.
    Born In The U.S.A. (1984) Born in the USA
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Boyhood is a most complex and incomprehensible thing. Even when one has been through it, one does not understand what it was. A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been the boy.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Sir Walter Scott Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land!
    Sir Walter Scott
    British writer and poet (1771 - 1832)
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  • Carlos Pena Romulo Brotherhood is the very price and condition of man's survival.
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  • Lord George Byron But as to women, who can penetrate the real sufferings of their she condition? Man's very sympathy with their estate has much of selfishness and more suspicion. Their love, their virtue, beauty, education, but form good housekeepers, to breed a nation.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Beilby Porteus But chiefly Thou, Whom soft-eyed Pity once led down from Heaven To bleed for man, to teach him how to live, And, oh! still harder lesson! how to die.
    Beilby Porteus
    English Bishop and reformer (1731 - 1809)
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  • Homer But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast, for gentle ways are best, and keep aloof from sharp contentions.
    Homer
    Greek poet (850 - 750)
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  • Bruce Springsteen But it's a sad man my friend who's livin' in his own skin
    And can't stand the company.
    Every fool's got a reason to feelin' sorry for himself
    And turn his heart to stone.
    Tonight this fool's halfway to heaven and just a mile outta hell
    And I feel like I'm comin' home.
    Lucky Town (1992) Better Days
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Ernest Hemingway But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
    The Old Man and the Sea (1952)
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • George Eliot But most of us are apt to settle within ourselves that the man who blocks our way is odious, and not to mind causing him a little of the disgust which his personality excites in ourselves.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Anne Hutchinson But now having seen him which is invisible I fear not what man can do unto me.
    Anne Hutchinson
    American religious reformer and activist
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  • William Shakespeare But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken But that is a rare, rare man, I venture, who is as steadily intelligent, as constantly sound in judgment, as little put off by appearances, as the average women of forty-eight.
    In Defense of Women (1918)
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Oscar Wilde But the bravest man amongst us is afraid of himself.
    The picture of Dorian Gray (1891)
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    English poet (1806 - 1861)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence But the effort, the effort! And as the marrow is eaten out of a man's bones and the soul out of his belly, contending with the strange rapacity of savage life, the lower stage of creation, he cannot make the effort any more.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • George Eliot But the mother's yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is the essence of real human love, feels the presence of the cherished child even in the debased, degraded man.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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