“Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.”
— Charlotte Bronte
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All men profess honesty as long as
“All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.”
— John Quincy Adams
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Instead of comparing our lot with that
“Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.”
— Helen Keller
Author: Helen Keller
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I do not believe in God; his
“I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre
Author: Jean-Paul Sartre
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Under the pressure of the cares and
“Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations – wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.”
— Edmund Burke
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When a man is no longer anxious
“When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.”
— Benjamin Haydon
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Good men must not obey the laws
“Good men must not obey the laws too well.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Those who have never had a father
“Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.”
— Samuel Butler
Author: Samuel Butler
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Happy is he who still loves something
“Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.”
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
Author: Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Men of ill judgment ignore the good
“Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.”
— Sophocles
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Some men can live up to their
“Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.”
— Theodore Roosevelt
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