Quotes with men

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  • Arthur Schopenhauer Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Wilferd Arlan Peterson Great men are little men expanded; great lives are ordinary lives intensified.
    Wilferd Arlan Peterson
    American author (1900 - 1995)
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  • Thomas Wentworth Higginson Great men are rarely isolated mountain-peaks; they are the summits of ranges.
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  • Charles Dickens Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Edmund Burke Great men are the guideposts and landmarks in the state.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary - they are in the true order. It is the other species of men who are not what they ought to be.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Robert Herrick Great men by small means oft are overthrown.
    Hesperides (1648) Loss From The Least
    Robert Herrick
    English lyric poet and cleric (1591 - 1674)
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  • Sydney Smith Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau Great men never make bad use of their superiority. They see it and feel it and are not less modest. The more they have, the more they know their own deficiencies.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Bishop Westcott Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men.
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  • William Blake Great things are done when men and mountains meet. This is not done by jostling in the street.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Black Elk Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.
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  • Dave Barry Guys are simple... women are not simple and they always assume that men must be just as complicated as they are, only way more mysterious. The whole point is guys are not thinking much. They are just what they appear to be. Tragically.
    Dave Barry
    American humorist, writer
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  • David Grayson Happiness... she loves, to see men at work. She loves sweat, weariness, self sacrifice. She will be found not in places but lurking in cornfields and factories; and hovering over littered desks; she crowns the unconscious head of the busy child.
    David Grayson
    American journalist, historian and author, pen name of Ray Baker (1870 - 1946)
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  • Bret Harte Hark! I hear the tramp of thousands, And of armed men the hum; Lo, a nation's hosts have gathered Round the quick alarming drum — Saying, Come Freemen, Come! Ere your heritage be wasted, Said the quick alarming drum.
    Bret Harte
    American short story writer and poet (1836 - 1902)
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  • Bertrand Russell Hatred of enemies is easier and more intense than love of friends. But from men who are more anxious to injure opponents than to benefit the world at large no great good is to be expected.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • John Aubrey He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.
    John Aubrey
    English antiquary, natural philosopher and writer (1626 - 1697)
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  • Thomas à Kempis He has great tranquillity of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.
    Thomas à Kempis
    Dutch medieval Augustinian canon, writer and mystic (1380 - 1471)
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley He has outsoared the shadow of our night; envy and calumny and hate and pain, and that unrest which men miscall delight, can touch him not and torture not again; from the contagion of the world's slow stain, he is secure.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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