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Quotes 781 till 800 of 1472.

  • Lord George Byron Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Cat Stevens Man is created to be God's deputy on earth and it is important to realize the obligation to rid ourselves of all illusions and to make our lives a preparation for the next life.
    Cat Stevens
    British singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1948 - )
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  • Samuel Butler Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • John Donne Man is not only a contributory creature, but a total creature; he does not only make one, but he is all; he is not a piece of the world, but the world itself; and next to the glory of God, the reason why there is a world.
    John Donne
    English poet (1572 - 1631)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • William Cowper Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
    William Cowper
    English poet (1731 - 1800)
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  • Thomas à Kempis Man proposes, but God disposes.
    Thomas à Kempis
    Dutch medieval Augustinian canon, writer and mystic (1380 - 1471)
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  • Mark Twain Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Doris Lessing Man who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance!
    Doris Lessing
    British novelist (1919 - 2013)
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  • Elie Wiesel Man, as long as he lives, is immortal. One minute before his death he shall be immortal. But one minute later, God wins.
    Elie Wiesel
    Rumanian-born American Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Billy Graham Many churches of all persuasions are hiring research agencies to poll neighborhoods, asking what kind of church they prefer. Then the local churches design themselves to fit the desires of the people. True faith in God that demands selflessness is being replaced by trendy religion that serves the selfish.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • B. Graham Dienert Many people pray as if God were a big aspirin pill; they come only when they hurt.
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  • Benjamin Graham Many progressive economists insist that gold is now in essentially the same position as silver and that the arguments the simon-pure gold advocates use against the white metal can be directed with equal effect against their own fetish.
    World Commodities and World Currencies Ch. IX, Commodities, Gold, Credit as Money, p. 100
    Benjamin Graham
    British-born American economist, professor and investor (1894 - 1976)
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  • George S. Patton May God have mercy uppon my enemies, because i won't.
    George S. Patton
    American Army General during World War II (1885 - 1945)
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  • W. H. Auden May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that ''faith'' is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh Meditation is the most significant because it opens the door for all other significant things: love, prayer, God, light, music, poetry.
    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
    Indian godman and mystic (1931 - 1990)
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  • Anthony Sampson Members rise from CMG (known sometimes in Whitehall as ''Call Me God'') to KCMG (''Kindly Call Me God'') to GCMG (''God Calls Me God'').
    Anthony Sampson
    British writer and journalist (1926 - 2004)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Francis Picabia Men have always need of god! A god to defend them against other men..
    Francis Picabia
    French painter and poet (1879 - 1953)
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  • William Penn Men must be governed by God, or they will be ruled by tyrants.
    William Penn
    English religious leader, founder of Pennsylvania (1644 - 1718)
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