Quotes with gentle-man

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  • Henry David Thoreau Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Ernest Hemingway Do not judge a man by his friends; do not forget that Judas friends were impeccable.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Thomas à Kempis Do not let your peace depend on the hearts of men; whatever they say about you, good or bad, you are not because of it another man, for as you are, you are.
    Thomas à Kempis
    Dutch medieval Augustinian canon, writer and mystic (1380 - 1471)
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  • Bernard of Clairvaux Do what Jesus says,... what he commands through his ministers who are in the Church. Be subject to his vicars, your leaders, not only those who are gentle and kind, but even those who are overbearing.
    Bernard of Clairvaux
    Burgundian abbot (1090 - 1153)
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  • Allan Massie Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilized folk to despise war.
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  • Augustus William Hare Do you wish to find out a person's weak points? Note the failings he has the quickest eye for in others. They may not be the very failings he is himself conscious of; but they will be their next-door neighbors. No man keeps such a jealous lookout as a rival.
    Augustus William Hare
    British writer (1792 - 1834)
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  • Arnold Bennett Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man.
    Arnold Bennett
    British novelist (1867 - 1931)
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  • Charles Lamb Don't introduce me to that man! I want to go on hating him, and I can't hate a man whom I know.
    Charles Lamb
    English essayist (1775 - 1834)
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  • Finley Peter Dunne Don't jump on a man unless he is down.
    Finley Peter Dunne
    American Journalist, Humorist (1867 - 1936)
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  • Robert C. Edwards Don't place too much confidence in the man who boasts of being as honest as the day is long. Wait until you meet him at night.
    Robert C. Edwards
    American author (1927 - 2013)
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  • William Pitt Don't talk to me about a man's being able to talk sense; everyone can talk sense. Can he talk nonsense?
    William Pitt
    British statesman (1759 - 1806)
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  • Wernher Von Braun Don't tell me that man doesn't belong out there. Man belongs wherever he wants to go - and he'll do plenty well when he gets there.
    Wernher Von Braun
    German-American rocket scientist and scientist (1912 - 1977)
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  • Helen Rowland Don't waste time trying to break a man's heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a brand new place.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • St. Augustine of Hippo Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?
    St. Augustine of Hippo
    Roman African Christian theologian and philosopher (354 - 430)
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  • William Shakespeare Doth not the appetite alter? A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.
    Much ado about nothing (1598)
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Francis Herbert Hedge Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which, if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare.
    Francis Herbert Hedge
    British philosopher (1846 - 1924)
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  • Søren Kierkegaard During the first period of a man's life, the danger is not to take the risk.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Augustus Baldwin Longstreet During the session of the Supreme Court, in the village of -, about three weeks ago, when a number of people were collected in the principal street of the village, I observed a young man riding up and down the street, as I supposed, in a violent passion.
    Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
    American lawyer, minister, educator, and humorist (1790 - 1870)
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  • Mark Twain Duties are not performed for duty's sake, but because their neglect would make the man uncomfortable. A man performs but one duty -the duty of contenting his spirit, the duty of making himself agreeable to himself.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Joseph Conrad Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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