Quotes with plains-man

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  • Henry Ward Beecher Education is the knowledge of how to use the whole of oneself. Many men use but one or two faculties out of the score with which they are endowed. A man is educated who knows how to make a tool of every faculty - how to open it, how to keep it sharp, and how to apply it to all practical purposes.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • C. S. Lewis Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Conrad Hilton Enthusiasm is a vital element toward the individual success of every man or woman.
    Conrad Hilton
    American businessman and founder of the Hilton hotels (1887 - 1979)
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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  • Ovid Envy feeds on the living, after death it rests, then the honor of a man protects him.
    Ovid
    Roman poet (43 - 17)
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  • Albert Schweitzer Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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  • Bono Ethiopia didn't just blow my mind; it opened my mind. Anyway, on our last day at this orphanage a man handed me his baby and said, 'Would you take my son with you?' He knew, in Ireland, that his son would live, and that in Ethiopia, his son would die.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • C. S. Lewis Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
    A Year with C. S. Lewis
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • John Berger Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and, in this, hasn't changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
    John Berger
    English art critic, novelist, painter and poet (1926 - 2017)
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  • Robert Collier Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginnings.
    Robert Collier
    American author
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Harry Anderson Every fool knows you can't touch the stars, but it doesn't stop a wise man from trying.
    Harry Anderson
    American actor, screenwriter, director and magician. (1952 - )
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  • John Ruskin Every great man is always being helped by everybody; for his gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Charles Baudelaire Every idea is endowed of itself with immortal life, like a human being. All created form, even that which is created by man, is immortal. For form is independent of matter: molecules do not constitute form.
    Charles Baudelaire
    French poet (1821 - 1867)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Lord Chesterfield Every man becomes, to a certain degree, what the people he generally converses with are.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Every man believes that he has greater possibilities.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Ayn Rand Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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