T. S. Eliot Quotes, Ambition Quotes, Men Quotes

Ambition fortifies the will of man to become ruler over other men: it operates with deception, cajolery, and violence, it is the action of impurity upon impurity.

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Shower on him every blessing, drown him in a sea of happiness, give him economic prosperity such that he should have nothing else to do but sleep, eat cakes, and busy himself with the continuation of the species, and even then, out of sheer ingratitude, sheer spite, man would play you some nasty trick.

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It is well for a man to respect his own vocation whatever it is and to think himself bound to uphold it and to claim for it the respect it deserves

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For a man learns more quickly and remembers more easily that which he laughs at, than that which he approves and reveres.

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Men are able to assist fortune but not to thwart her. They can weave her designs, but they cannot destroy them.

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That man was beautiful. Timing, speed, reflexes, rhythm, his body, everything was beautiful. And to me, still, I would say pound for pound... I'd say I'm the greatest heavyweight of all time, but pound for pound, I still say Sugar Ray Robinson was the greatest of all time.

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The greatest trust between man and man is the trust of giving counsel.

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What if man is not really a scoundrel, man in general, I mean, the whole race of mankind-then all the rest is prejudice, simply artificial terrors and there are no barriers and it's all as it should be.

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The more perfect the artist, the more completely separate in him will be the man who suffers and the mind which creates.

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I am a sick man...I am a spiteful man. I am an unattractive man. I think my liver is diseased. Then again, I don't know a thing about my illness; I'm not even sure what hurts.

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Man does not live by bread alone. Many prefer self-respect to food.

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I have thought some of Nature's journeymen had made men and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.

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Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them.

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Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into the arms of fallen men, and pleads with them to return to paradise.

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Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.

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I could not be happy with a man whose taste did not in every point coincide with my own. He must enter in all my feelings; the same books, the same music must charm us both.

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May the merciful god, if indeed there be such, guard those hours when no power of the will, or drug that the cunning of man devises, can keep me from the chasm of sleep. Death is merciful, for there is no return therefrom, but with him who has come back out of the nethermost chambers of night, haggard and knowing, peace rests nevermore.

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The necessity of saying something, the embarrassment produced by the consciousness of having nothing to say, and the desire to exhibit ability, are three things sufficient to render even a great man ridiculous.

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The more perfect the artist, the more completely separate in him will be the man who suffers and the mind which creates.

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When a chivalrous man makes an oath, he is faithful to it, and when he attains power, he spares his enemy.

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