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In popular government results worth while can only be achieved by men who combine worthy ideals with practical good sense.
By whomsoever no evil is done in deed, or word, or thought, him I call a Brahmin (holy man) who is guarded in these three.
An abstract style is always bad. Your sentences should be full of stones, metals, chairs, tables, animals, men, and women.
Those who are held Wise among men and who search the reasons of things, are those who bring the most sorrow on themselves.
Crooked things may be as stiff and unflexible as streight: and Men may be as positive and peremptory in Error as in Truth.
And me I'm in the bathroom crying out my eyelids because it's hard to be a man when you're scared, just like a little kid.
I'm saddened to see that some have been misled into believing that Mr. Disney was something other than a kind, caring man.
Men who are addicted to the passions are like the torch-carrier running against the wind; his hands are sure to be burned.
[Meanness] is more ingrained in man's nature than Prodigality; the mass of mankind are avaricious rather than open-handed.
Nothing ought more to humiliate men who have merited great praise than the care they still take to boast of little things.
Government is the people's business and every man, woman and child becomes a shareholder with the first penny of tax paid.
History is but a kind of Newgate calendar, a register of the crimes and miseries that man has inflicted on his fellow-man.
A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.
Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.
Some men make money not for the sake of living, but ache In the blindness of greed and live just for their fortune's sake.
Although men flatter themselves with their great actions, they are not so often the result of a great design as of chance.
Trust the man who hesitates in his speech and is quick and steady in action, but beware of long arguments and long beards.
Nothing can excel a few days in jail for giving a young man or woman a quick education in the basis of industrial society.
If you sacrifice your art because of some woman, or some man, or for some color, or for some wealth, you can't be trusted.
Sometimes man seeks for wealth for eighty years, but cannot find, and then realises that life itself is the wealth itself!
The man who becomes angry never does a great amount of work, and the man whom nothing can make angry accomplishes so much.
Dream and deed are not as different as many think. All the deeds of men are dreams at first, and become dreams in the end.
Father Time is the make-up man responsible for the physical changes that determine the parts the average actor is to play.
When a great man has become petrified, and everyone begins to proclaim his greatness, he has already turned into a puppet.
The superior man is easy to serve, but difficult to please ... The inferior man is difficult to serve, but easy to please.
I started photographing men in 1964. Fourteen years later I got a Guggenheim, even so no one would publish the male nudes.
Popularity--The capacity for listening sympathetically when men boast of their wives and women complain of their husbands.
A self made man is a rarity and hated by the parasites that floated to fame thought their parents, relatives and contacts.
If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottage princes' palaces.
Let your air be that of a winner, a man who is resolved to make his way in the world, to make himself stand for something.
Any sort of plain speaking is better than the nauseous sham good fellowship our democratic public men get up for shop use.
Professionally, it would be a logical choice, but my personal view is that he is the most insincere man I know in football
Reverence to a woman in courtship is less to be dispensed with, as, generally, there is but little of it shown afterwards.
The best way to learn to write is to study the work of the men and women who are doing the kind of writing you want to do.
If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known.
Vice incapacitates a man from all public duty; it withers the powers of his under- standing, and makes his mind paralytic.
I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing, that no man desires for himself.
One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.
I am not sure that God always knows who are his great men; he is so very careless of what happens to them while they live.
Men and women balance each other out, and we have to get to a point where we are comfortable with appreciating each other.
When man, governed by reasonable laws, enjoys his natural freedom, let him despise woman, if she do not share it with him.
As women are empowered, violence can come down, for a number of reasons. By all measures, men are the more violent gender.
Lozen is my right hand . . . strong as a man , braver than most, and cunning in strategy, Lozen is a shield to her people.
I am sorry for men who do not read the Bible every day. I wonder why they deprive themselves of the strength and pleasure.
The question is not what man can scorn, or disparage, or find fault with, but what he can love, and value, and appreciate.
Man's condition is horrible because, no matter what form his happiness may take, it arises from some species of ignorance.
A man should not risk his life for beauty alone, Kiall, for that fades. You might as well risk it for a rose. Think on it.
The man who mobilizes the Christian church to pray will make the greatest contribution to world evangelization in history.
Personally, I hold that a man, who deliberately and intelligently takes a pledge and then breaks it, forfeits his manhood.
What a man is depends on his character; but what he does, and what we think of what he does, depends on his circumstances.