Quotes with manly

  • The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly.
  • Hide not thy tears; weep boldly, and be proud to give the flowing virtue manly way; it is nature's mark to know an honest heart by.
  • The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.
  • Give me the avowed, the erect, the manly foe, bold I can meet, perhaps may turn his blow! But of all plagues, good Heavens, thy wrath can send, save, save, oh save me from the candid friend!
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  • Booker T. Washington To those of my race who... underestimate the importance of cultivating friendly relations with the Southern white man, who is their next-door neighbor, I would say, 'Cast down your bucket where you are'—cast it down in making friends in every manly way of the people of all races by whom we are surrounded.
    Address at Atlanta International Exposition, Atlanta, Ga., 18 September 1895
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • Juvenal A hairy body, and arms stiff with bristles, give promise of a manly soul.
    Juvenal
    Roman poet
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  • George Canning Give me the avowed, the erect, the manly foe, bold I can meet, perhaps may turn his blow! But of all plagues, good Heavens, thy wrath can send, save, save, oh save me from the candid friend!
    George Canning
    British statesman (1770 - 1827)
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  • Mary Baker Eddy Give up the belief that mind is, even temporarily, compressed within the skull, and you will quickly become more manly or womanly. You will understand yourself and your Maker better than before.
    Mary Baker Eddy
    American founder of the Christian Science Church (1821 - 1910)
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  • William Wycherley Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.
    William Wycherley
    British drama writer (1640 - 1715)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Having thus chosen our course, without guile and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in God, and go forward without fear and with manly hearts.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Aaron Hill Hide not thy tears; weep boldly, and be proud to give the flowing virtue manly way; it is nature's mark to know an honest heart by.
    Aaron Hill
    English dramatist and writer (1685 - 1750)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Carolyn See It was in 'Esquire' in the 1970s that I first learned Nora Ephron's recipe for borscht - certainly an editorial first for that manly magazine.
    Carolyn See
    American writer (1934 - 2016)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. In is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and a manly heart.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Robert E. Lee Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character.
    Robert E. Lee
    American legeraanvoerder (1807 - 1870)
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  • Billy Sunday Some persons have lived manly or womanly lives, and they lack but one thing - open confession of the Lord Jesus Christ. Some men think that they must come to him in a certain way - that they must be stirred by emotion or something like that.
    Billy Sunday
    American athlete and evangelist (1862 - 1935)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Sooner or later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song.''
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The President has paid dear for his White House. It has commonly cost him all his peace, and the best of his manly attributes. To preserve for a short time so conspicuous an appearance before the world, he is content to eat dust before the real masters who stand erect behind the throne.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Joseph Conrad The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Henry David Thoreau The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Thucydides The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.
    Thucydides
    Athenian historian and general (460 - 400)
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  • William Wordsworth These two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together: manly dependence and manly independence, manly reliance and manly selfreliance.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • Alan Watts To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.
    Alan Watts
    English philosopher, priest and writer (1915 - 1973)
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