No man ever became very wicked all at once.
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No man ever became very wicked all at once.
Man is an imitative animal. This quality is the germ of all education in him. From his cradle to his grave he is learning to do what he sees others do.
A man is nothing but breath and shadow.
Exploitation and manipulation produce boredom and triviality; they cripple man, and all factors that make man into a psychic cripple turn him also into a sadist or a destroyer.
God has not bowed to our nervous haste nor embraced the methods of our machine age. The man who would know God must give time to Him.
The most successful career must show a waste of strength that might have removed mountains, and the most unsuccessful is not that of the man who is taken unprepared, but of him who has prepared and is never taken.
Oh Lord, I thank Thee that I can bring these people Thy Word. But Lord, there are other villages back in the jungle where no white man has gone. They need Jesus, too. Help me reach them!
All these mountains of Irish dead, all these corpses mangled beyond recognition, all these arms, legs, eyes, ears, fingers, toes, hands, all these shivering putrefying bodies and portions of bodies once warm living and tender parts of Irish men and youths - all these horrors in Flanders or the Gallipoli Peninsula, are all items in the price Ireland pays for being part of the British Empire.
Man is created to be God's deputy on earth and it is important to realize the obligation to rid ourselves of all illusions and to make our lives a preparation for the next life.
Every man, when he comes to be sensible of his natural rights, and to feel his own importance, will consider himself as fully equal to any other person whatever
Once in a century a man may be ruined or made insufferable by praise. But surely once in a minute something generous dies for want of it.
I have seen flowers come in stony places_x000D_ And kind things done by men with ugly faces,_x000D_ And the gold cup won by the worst horse at the races,_x000D_ So I trust, too.
Love in the Arab world is like a prisoner, and I want to set (it) free. I want to free the Arab soul, sense and body with my poetry. The relationships between men and women in our society are not healthy.
America has but one main problem -- the character of the men and women it shall produce.
Man doth not yield him to the angels, nor unto death utterly, save only through the weakness of his feeble will.
It is impossible for a man to be made happy by putting him in a happy place, unless he be first in a happy state.
And then theres always the crying and the weeping that we hear-children, women, even men. And these images and these sounds are always with me.
Here every man may be master and owner of his owne labour and land...If he have nothing but his hands, he may...by industrie quickly grow rich.
Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.
Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles; he can only discover them.
When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.
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