Quotes with plains-man

Quotes 1821 till 1840 of 4539.

  • Ralph Waldo Emerson If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Carter G. Woodson If the white man wants to hold on to it, let him do so; but the Negro, so far as he is able, should develop and carry out a program of his own.
    Carter G. Woodson
    American historian, author and journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Robert South If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives.
    Robert South
    English churchman (1634 - 1716)
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  • Edgar Sheffield Brightman If there is a God, man's immortality is certain. If not, Immortality would not be worth having.
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  • Paul Gallico If there is any larceny in a man, golf will bring it out.
    Paul Gallico
     
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  • Samuel Butler If there is any moral in Christianity, if there is anything to be learned from it, if the whole story is not profitless from first to last, it comes to this: that a man should back his own opinion against the world s.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Abraham Lincoln If there is anything that a man can do and do it well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Hubert Humphrey If there is dissatisfaction with the status quo, good. If there is ferment, so much the better. If there is restlessness, I am pleased. Then let there be ideas, and hard thought, and hard work. If man feels small, let man make himself bigger.
    Hubert Humphrey
    American politician (1911 - 1978)
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  • Seneca If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Francis Quarles If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.
    Francis Quarles
    British poet (1592 - 1644)
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  • Epicurus If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
    Epicurus
    Greek Philosopher (341 - 270)
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  • C. Wright Mills If we accept the Greek's definition of the idiot as an altogether private man, then we must conclude that many American citizens are now idiots. And I should not be surprised, although I don't know, if there were some such idiots even in Germany.
    Source: The British Journal of Sociology Structure of Power in America, Vol. 9 (March 1958)
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Charles Horton Cooley If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted.
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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  • Virginia Woolf If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? Not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • George S. Patton If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.
    George S. Patton
    American Army General during World War II (1885 - 1945)
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  • Eleanor Roosevelt If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being-we can do it.
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    American "First Lady" and columnist (1884 - 1962)
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  • Ernest Hemingway If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Billy Casper If you can help anyone in any way, that is what we are here for. The pinnacle of my life has really been two lives - golf and service to my fellow man.
    Billy Casper
    American professional golfer (1931 - )
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  • Bill Bryson If you can imagine a man having a vasectomy without anesthetic to the sound of frantic sitar-playing, you will have some idea what popular Turkish music is like.
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling If you can meet success and failure and treat them both as impostors, then you are a balanced man.
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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