Modern men are afraid of the past. It is a record of human achievement, but its other face is human defeat.
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The gods Grow angry with your patience: 't is their care, And must be yours, that guilty men escape not: As crimes do grow, justice should rouse itself.
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We have gone forth from our shores repeatedly over the last hundred years and we've done this as recently as the last year in Afghanistan and put wonderful young men and women at risk, many of whom have lost their lives, and we have asked for nothing except enough ground to bury them in.
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More men have become great through practice than by nature.
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By nature, men are nearly alike by practice, they get to be wide apart.
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Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.
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When the highest type of men hear Tao, They diligently practice it. When the average type of men hear Tao, They half believe in it. When the lowest type of men hear Tao, They laugh heartily at it.
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Who knows why we live, and struggle, and die.. Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
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When bad men combine, the good must associate else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
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The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.
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Humanity needs practical men, who get the most out of their work, and, without forgetting the general good, safeguard their own interests. But humanity also needs dreamers, for whom the disinterested development of an enterprise is so captivating that it becomes impossible for them to devote their care to their own material profit. A well organized society should assure to such workers the efficient means of accomplishing their task, in a life freed from material care and freely consecrated to research.
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With all their faults, trade unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed.
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There are men whom a happy disposition, a strong desire of glory and esteem, inspire with the same love for justice and virtue which men in general have for riches and honors.. But the number of these men is so small that I only mention them in honor of humanity.
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None can love freedom heartily but good men the rest love not freedom, but license.
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Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.
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Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.
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An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.
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Men do not know the natural infirmity of their mind: it does nothing but ferret and quest, and keeps incessantly whirling around, building up and becoming entangled in its own work, like silkworms, and is suffocated in it. A mouse in a pitch barrel.. Thi
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So many men so many questions.
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Histories make men wise poets, witty the mathematics, subtle natural philosophy, deep moral, grave logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
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I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
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Ambition drove many men to become false to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.
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Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping.
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All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possibl
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Huge and mighty forms that do not live like living men, moved slowly through the mind by day and were trouble to my dreams.
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