Quotes with gentle-man

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  • Aldous Huxley Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Garrison Keillor Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people.
    Garrison Keillor
    American humoristic writer (1942 - )
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  • C. S. Lewis Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
    A Year with C. S. Lewis
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • John Berger Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and, in this, hasn't changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
    John Berger
    English art critic, novelist, painter and poet (1926 - 2017)
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  • Robert Collier Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginnings.
    Robert Collier
    American author
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Harry Anderson Every fool knows you can't touch the stars, but it doesn't stop a wise man from trying.
    Harry Anderson
    American actor, screenwriter, director and magician. (1952 - )
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  • John Ruskin Every great man is always being helped by everybody; for his gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Charles Baudelaire Every idea is endowed of itself with immortal life, like a human being. All created form, even that which is created by man, is immortal. For form is independent of matter: molecules do not constitute form.
    Charles Baudelaire
    French poet (1821 - 1867)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Lord Chesterfield Every man becomes, to a certain degree, what the people he generally converses with are.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Every man believes that he has greater possibilities.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Ayn Rand Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Jonathan Swift Every man desires to live long, but no man would be old.
    Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies (1711-1726)
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • James Russell Lowell Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Robert Burton Every man for himself, his own ends, the Devil for all.
    The Anatomy of Melancholy Part III, sect. 1,3
    Robert Burton
    English clergyman and writer (1577 - 1640)
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  • Robert Burton Every man for himself, the devil for all.
    The Anatomy of Melancholy
    Robert Burton
    English clergyman and writer (1577 - 1640)
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  • Konrad Lorenz Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.
    Konrad Lorenz
    German so lied (1903 - 1989)
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