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  • William Blake Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • John Locke Till a man can judge whether they be truths or not, his understanding is but little improved, and thus men of much reading, though greatly learned, but may be little knowing.
    John Locke
    English philosopher (1632 - 1704)
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  • Robert Frost Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Geoffrey Chaucer Time and tide wait for no man.
    Geoffrey Chaucer
    British poet (1340 - 1400)
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  • Herbert Spencer Time is that which a man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.
    Herbert Spencer
    British Philosopher (1820 - 1903)
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  • Jorge Luis Borges Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
    Jorge Luis Borges
    Argentijns writer (1899 - 1986)
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  • Bruce Lee Time means a lot to me because, you see, i, too, am also a learner and am often lost in the joy of forever developing and simplifying. If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.
    Striking Thoughts (2000)
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Ralph Hodgson Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day?
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  • Beyonce Knowles Tina Turner is someone that I admire, because she made her strength feminine and sexy.
    Beyonce Knowles
    American singer and actress (1981 - )
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  • Gore Vidal To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds.
    Gore Vidal
    American writer and criticus (1925 - 2012)
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  • Joseph Conrad To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Adlai Stevenson II To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • George Eliot To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved to be called by no meaner name than diplomacy.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Henry David Thoreau To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Mark Twain To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Albert Camus To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Abraham Cowley To be a husbandman, is but a retreat from the city; to be a philosopher, from the world; or rather, a retreat from the world, as it is man's, into the world, as it is God's.
    Of Agriculture.
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • W. E. B. Du Bois To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.
    W. E. B. Du Bois
    American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist and writer (1868 - 1963)
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