Quotes with plains-man

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  • Algernon Sydney To depend upon the Will of a Man is Slavery.
    Algernon Sydney
    English politician (1623 - 1683)
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel To depersonalize man is the dominant drift of our times.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Plutarch To do an evil act is base. To do a good one without incurring danger, is common enough. But it is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds though he risks everything in doing them.
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Buddha To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Bruce Fairchild Barton To every man of vision the clear Voice speaks; there is no great leadership where there is not a mystic. Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside themselves was superior to circumstance. To choose the sure thing is treason to the soul.
    Source: The Man Nobody Knows (1924) On Jesus, in Ch. 1 : The Executive
    Bruce Fairchild Barton
    American author, advertising executive, and politician (1886 - 1967)
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  • John Oxenham To every man there openeth A way, and ways, and a way. And the high soul climbs the high way, And the low soul gropes the low: And in between, on the misty flats, The rest drift to and fro. But to every man there openeth A high way and a low, And every man decideth. The way his soul shall go.
    John Oxenham
    English journalist, writer and poet (ps. of William Arthur Dunkerley) (1852 - 1941)
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  • E. M. Cioran To exist is equivalent to an act of faith, a protest against the truth, an interminable prayer. As soon as they consent to live, the unbeliever and the man of faith are fundamentally the same, since both have made the only decision that defines a being.
    E. M. Cioran
    French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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  • Benjamin Tucker To force a man to pay for the violation of his own liberty is indeed an addition of insult to injury.
    Benjamin Tucker
    American anarchist and socialist (1854 - 1939)
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  • Robert A. Heinlein To get anywhere, or even live a long time, a man has to guess, and guess right, over and over again, without enough data for a logical answer.
    Robert A. Heinlein
    American science fiction writer (1907 - 1988)
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  • William Ellery Channing To give a generous hope to a man of his own nature, is to enrich him immeasurably.
    William Ellery Channing
    American Unitarian minister (1780 - 1842)
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  • John Locke To give a man full knowledge of morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament.
    John Locke
    English philosopher (1632 - 1704)
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  • Baruch Spinoza To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Oscar Wilde To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Alan Paton To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.
    Alan Paton
    South African author and anti-apartheid activist (1903 - 1988)
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  • Horace To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Margaret Oliphant To have a man who can flirt is next thing to indispensable to a leader of society.
    Margaret Oliphant
    British writer, historian (1828 - 1897)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Oscar Wilde To have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact, talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Aldous Huxley To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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