Quotes with one-man

Quotes 2601 till 2620 of 10005.

  • William Wordsworth Happier of happy though I be, like them I cannot take possession of the sky, mount with a thoughtless impulse, and wheel there, one of a mighty multitude whose way and motion is a harmony and dance magnificent.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Arnold Bennett Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.
    Arnold Bennett
    British novelist (1867 - 1931)
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  • Iris Murdoch Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for one's ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonizing preoccupation with self.
    Iris Murdoch
    Anglo-Irish novelist and philosopher (1919 - 1999)
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  • St. Thomas Aquinas Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.
    St. Thomas Aquinas
    Italian philosopher and theologian (1225 - 1274)
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  • Ayn Rand Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Marquis de Sade Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Ovid Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.
    Ovid
    Roman poet (43 - 17)
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  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame -to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a Hell!
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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  • Midrash Happy is the man whose deeds are greater than his learning
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  • Lord Mancroft Happy is the man with a wife to tell him what to do and a secretary to do it.
    Lord Mancroft
     
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  • Bono Happy the country that lives on nothing but its wits; cursed be the one that thinks it can get rich by planting or digging or drilling for wealth.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Seneca Happy the man who can endure the highest and the lowest fortune. He, who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity, has deprived misfortune of its power.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Alexander Pope Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • John Dryden Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
    John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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  • James Allen Harmony is one phase of the law whose spiritual expression is love.
    James Allen
    British philosophical writer (1864 - 1912)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Has fear ever held a man back from anything he really wanted?
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Homer Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.
    Homer
    Greek poet (850 - 750)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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