Quotes with plains-man

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  • George Bernard Shaw Beware of the man whose God is in the skies.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Mark Twain Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Lydia M. Child Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father!
    Lydia M. Child
    American Abolitionist, Writer, Editor (1802 - 1880)
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  • Elbert Hubbard Blessed is that man who has found his work.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Alexander Pope Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
    Letter to William Fortescue (23 september 1725)
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • John Burroughs Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.
    John Burroughs
    American writer (1837 - 1921)
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  • George Eliot Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Carlos Santana Blues was my first love. It was the first thing where I said Oh man, this is the stuff. It just sounded so raw and honest, gut-bucket honest. From then I started rebelling.
    Carlos Santana
    Mexican and American guitarist (1947 - )
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Books are fatal: they are the curse of the human race. Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense. The greatest misfortune that ever befell man was the invention of printing.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Bruce Springsteen Born down in a dead man's town;
    The first kick I took was when I hit the ground.
    You end up like a dog that's been beat too much
    'Til you spend half your life just covering up.
    Born In The U.S.A. (1984) Born in the USA
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Boyhood is a most complex and incomprehensible thing. Even when one has been through it, one does not understand what it was. A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been the boy.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Sir Walter Scott Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land!
    Sir Walter Scott
    British writer and poet (1771 - 1832)
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  • Sam Walter Foss Bring me men to match my mountains: Bring me men to match my plains: Men with empires in their purpose and new eras in their brains.
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  • Carlos Pena Romulo Brotherhood is the very price and condition of man's survival.
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  • Lord George Byron But as to women, who can penetrate the real sufferings of their she condition? Man's very sympathy with their estate has much of selfishness and more suspicion. Their love, their virtue, beauty, education, but form good housekeepers, to breed a nation.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Beilby Porteus But chiefly Thou, Whom soft-eyed Pity once led down from Heaven To bleed for man, to teach him how to live, And, oh! still harder lesson! how to die.
    Beilby Porteus
    English Bishop and reformer (1731 - 1809)
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  • Bruce Springsteen But it's a sad man my friend who's livin' in his own skin
    And can't stand the company.
    Every fool's got a reason to feelin' sorry for himself
    And turn his heart to stone.
    Tonight this fool's halfway to heaven and just a mile outta hell
    And I feel like I'm comin' home.
    Lucky Town (1992) Better Days
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Ernest Hemingway But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
    The Old Man and the Sea (1952)
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • George Eliot But most of us are apt to settle within ourselves that the man who blocks our way is odious, and not to mind causing him a little of the disgust which his personality excites in ourselves.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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