Quotes with plains-man

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  • St. Augustine of Hippo Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?
    St. Augustine of Hippo
    Roman African Christian theologian and philosopher (354 - 430)
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  • William Shakespeare Doth not the appetite alter? A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.
    Source: Much ado about nothing (1598)
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Francis Herbert Hedge Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which, if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare.
    Francis Herbert Hedge
    British philosopher (1846 - 1924)
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  • Søren Kierkegaard During the first period of a man's life, the danger is not to take the risk.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Augustus Baldwin Longstreet During the session of the Supreme Court, in the village of -, about three weeks ago, when a number of people were collected in the principal street of the village, I observed a young man riding up and down the street, as I supposed, in a violent passion.
    Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
    American lawyer, minister, educator, and humorist (1790 - 1870)
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  • Mark Twain Duties are not performed for duty's sake, but because their neglect would make the man uncomfortable. A man performs but one duty -the duty of contenting his spirit, the duty of making himself agreeable to himself.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Joseph Conrad Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Marie Carmichael Stopes Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.
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  • Virgil Each man has his appointed day: short and irreparable in the brief life of all, but to extend our fame by our deeds, this is the work of mankind.
    Virgil
    Roman poet (70 - 19)
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  • Persius Each man has his own desires; all do not possess the same inclinations.
    Persius
    Roman poet and satirist (34 - 62)
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  • John Oxenham Each man is Captain of his Soul,
    And each man his own Crew,
    Source: Gedicht: New Year's Day - And Every Day
    John Oxenham
    English journalist, writer and poet (ps. of William Arthur Dunkerley) (1852 - 1941)
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  • J. Oxenham Each man is captain of his soul.
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  • Remy de Gourmont Each man must grant himself the emotions that he needs and the morality that suits him.
    Remy de Gourmont
    French writer, poet and philosopher (1858 - 1915)
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  • Charles Horton Cooley Each man must have his ''I''; it is more necessary to him than bread; and if he does not find scope for it within the existing institutions he will be likely to make trouble.
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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  • Victor Hugo Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Tim O'Brien Each of us, I suppose needs his illusions. Life after death. A maker of planets. A woman to love, a man to hate. Something sacred. But what a waste.
    Source: Tomcat in Love (2011) 319
    Tim O'Brien
    American novelist (1946 - )
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  • Camille Paglia Earisome as it may seem, women must realize that, in making a commitment to a man, they have merged in his unconscious with his mother and have therefore inherited the ambivalence of that relationship.
    Source: Vamps and Tramps (1994)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman Economic man and sensual man are not suppressible.
    Source: A Distant Mirror
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Bill Vaughan Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income - which he then spends sending his son to college.
    Bill Vaughan
    American columnist and author (1915 - 1977)
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  • G.W.F. Hegel Education is the art of making man ethical.
    G.W.F. Hegel
    German philosopher (1770 - 1831)
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