Nothing feebler than a man does the earth raise up, of all the things which breathe and move on the earth, for he believes that he will never suffer evil in the future, as long as the gods give him success and he flourishes in his strength but when the blessed gods bring sorrows too to pass, even these he bears, against his will, with steadfast spirit, for the thoughts of earthly men are like the day which the father of gods and men brings upon them.
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Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth
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Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
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Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort that I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought.
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The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
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Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of China or in ghettos and suburbs of America.
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The men who come on the stage at one period are all found to be related to each other. Certain ideas are in the air.
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To die for an idea it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true
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Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells To dig a vineyard is worthier exercise for men.
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When men are pure, laws are useless when men are corrupt, laws are broken.
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Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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Just men, by whom impartial laws were given; And saints who taught and led the way to heaven.
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Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.. We here highly resolve that the dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
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Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, This was their finest hour.
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Adversity makes men wise but not rich.
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Fire is the test of gold adversity, of strong men.
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Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.
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Adversity cause some men to break others to break records.
The heights by great men reached and kept Were not obtained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night
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No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
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After three days men grow weary of a wench, a guest, and rainy weather.
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Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.
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.. One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
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I know of no great men except those who have rendered great service to the human race.
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Nothing more clearly show how little God esteems his gift to men of wealth, money, position and other wordly goods, than the way he distributes these, and the sort of men who are most amply provided with them.
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