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I am quite content to go down to posterity as a scissors and paste man for that seems to me a harsh but not unjust description
Perhaps religious conscience upsets the designs of those who feel that the highest wisdom and authority comes from government.
There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.
A miracle is the badge and brand of fraud. ... No intelligent, honest man ever pretended to perform a miracle, and never will.
God needs no worship, no praise, no thanksgiving. It is man himself who needs the benefit to be derived from these activities.
The preaching of divines helps to preserve well-inclined men in the course of virtue, but seldom or ever reclaims the vicious.
He whom God has touched will always be a being apart: he is, whatever he may do, a stranger among men; he is marked by a sign.
The Habeas Corpus secures every man here, alien or citizen, against everything which is not law, whatever shape it may assume.
The average is the borderline that keeps mere men in their place. Those who step over the line are heroes by the very act. Go.
And have they fixed the where, and when? And shall Trelawny die? Here's thirty thousand Cornish men, Will know the reason why!
I suppose they're confident. I think younger guys love the idea of a divorced woman who's going to teach them how to be a man.
Although Nature needs thousands or millions of years to create a new species, man needs only a few dozen years to destroy one.
Money maketh man a tory, don't fire that assumption at me, I like toast as much as anyone but not for breakfast, dinner and tea
Butch didn't live in his own place. He didn't spend his own money. He had no job, no future. He was a well-kept pet, not a man.
Dead men may envy living mites in cheese, Or good germs even. Microbes have their joys, And subdivide, and never come to death.
It is better to be wise, and not to seem so, than to seem wise, and not be so; yet men, for the most part, desire the contrary.
I'm very flexible. I've got flexibility in any weight class. If you guys out there want to fight me man, I will fight you guys.
Men-what arrogance! That was the worst of them. Forget the sexual hold they had on you. They would never liberate women at all.
Man is that name of power which rises above them all, and gives to every one the right to be that which God meant he should be.
When you love, love as if the person is a god, not less than that. Never love a woman as a woman and never love a man as a man.
When private men shall act with original views, the lustre will be transferred from the actions of kings to those of gentlemen.
When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife. My wife dresses to kill. She cooks the same way.
I am proud of the fact that women have been recognised as being as capable, as able to do the senior jobs in Europe as any man.
The problem with the way we discuss gender is that it tends to be "Let's sympathize with women" or "Let's sympathize with men."
Let me explain my job very simply: My job is to line up five, seven, 10 yards in front of a man and run into him at full speed.
All I knew was that I would die if he sent me away. He shrugged. You can cut a man’s heart out with a shrug, did you know that?
Horses are not for riding! They do not exist for riding! Horse riding is man's invention! It is the making up of human benefit!
Despots prefer the friendship of the dog, who, unjustly mistreated and debased, still loves and serves the man who wronged him.
The right to freedom being the gift of God, it is not in the power of man to alienate this gift and voluntarily become a slave.
Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit -- or a mask. . . . The foregoing maxim shows the difference between truth and sarcasm.
Uncorrupted man, with God's blessing, advances across the fields of the universe as though he were walking down a country lane.
There is not a grain of dust, not an atom that can become nothing, yet man believes that death is the annhilation of his being.
If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives to all men generously and without reproaching, and it will be given him.
The punishment of a criminal is an example to the rabble; but every decent man is concerned if an innocent person is condemned.
The People, though we think of a great entity when we use the word, means nothing more than so many millions of individual men.
Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend, not the man for your banker, though he may do for a traveling companion.
Don't. Tell me when, then. And before you say never, take a good look at me and tell me if you see a man who's easily deterred.
A man descending is propelled by inertia; the only initiative left him is whether or not he decides to enjoy the passing scene.
Nobody should be whipped. Remember that, once and for all. Neither man nor animal can be influenced by anything but suggestion.
A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself actively to the job of gratitude.
As he drank, little brown drops of coffee clung to his mustache like dew. Men will live like billy goats if they are let alone.
It is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things just so far as the nature of the subject admits
The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic.
Some have more capacity. Some proceed a few steps along the way. But Christ seemed to love all men. He desired all to be saved.
When you think of the number of men in the world who hate each other, why, when two men love each other, does the church split?
I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine; every man for himself, and God for us all.
With hidden powers of unknown extent apparently at his disposal, Curwen was not a man who could safely be warned to leave town.
Many a man who is willing to be shot for his belief in a miracle would have doubted, had he been present at the miracle itself.
Wow, Johnny. I send you out for reinforcements and you come back with an old man, a nerd and this little hobbit guy. Great job.
A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.