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Quotes 3501 till 3520 of 5049.

  • Henry Louis Mencken The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Vince Lombardi The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.
    Vince Lombardi
    American football player (1913 - 1970)
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  • Benjamin Franklin The discontented man finds no easy chair.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton The discovery of this strange society was a curiously refreshing thing; to realize that there were ten new trades in the world was like looking at the first ship or the first plough. It made a man feel what he should feel, that he was still in the childhood of the world.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • George Santayana The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Thomas Arnold The distinction between Christianity and all other systems of religion consists largely in this, that in these other men are found seeking after God, while Christianity is God seeking after man.
    Thomas Arnold
    English educator and historian (1795 - 1842)
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  • Jean Rostand The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.
    Jean Rostand
    French writer (1894 - 1977)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man; and the result is that he instinctively takes care not to get ahead of them.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Charles Haddon Spurgeon The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is the knowledge of our own ignorance.
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon
    English Baptist preacher (1834 - 1892)
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  • Henry Miller The dreamer whose dreams are non-utilitarian has no place in this world. In this world the poet is anathema, the thinker a fool, the artist an escapist, the man of vision a criminal.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • John Stuart Mill The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it.
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • Robert E. Lee The education of a man is never completed until he dies.
    Robert E. Lee
    American legeraanvoerder (1807 - 1870)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The eloquent man is he who is no eloquent speaker, but who is inwardly drunk with a certain belief.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • John Milton The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate Him.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Thomas Carlyle The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Thomas Carlyle The end of man is an action and not a thought, though it were the noblest.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • James Agate The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent, and is modest about it.
    James Agate
    English diarist and theatre critic (1877 - 1947)
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  • Francis Picabia The essence of a man is found in his faults.
    Francis Picabia
    French painter and poet (1879 - 1953)
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  • Confucius The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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