William Wordsworth Quotes, Men Quotes

The wealthiest man among us is the best

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Though violence is not lawful, when it is offered in self-defense or for the defense of the defenseless, it is an act of bravery far better than cowardly submission. The latter befits neither man nor woman. Under violence, there are many stages and varieties of bravery. Every man must judge this for himself. No other person can or has the right.

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Governments have their origin in the moral identity of men.

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How fortunate for leaders that men do not think (also, What luck for rulers that men do not think).

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The Master said, “The gentleman understands what is right, whereas the petty man understands profit.” (Analects 4.16)

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Each truth that a writer acquires is a lantern, which he turns full on what facts and thoughts lay already in his mind, and behold, all the mats and rubbish which had littered his garret become precious. Every trivial fact in his private biography becomes an illustration of this new principle, revisits the day, and delights all men by its piquancy and new charm.

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You highest men whom I have ever seen! This is my suspicion about you and my secret laughter: I guess that you would call my superman--a devil!

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A man must be of a very quiet and happy nature, who can long endure the country; and, moreover, very well contented with his own insignificant person.

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You stand on dead men's legs. You've never had any of your own. You couldn't walk alone between two sunrises and hustle the meat for your belly

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Man hath his daily work of body or mind Appointed.

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It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

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A hungry man is not a free man.

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Of all the evils for which man has made himself responsible, none is so degrading, so shocking, or so brutal as his abuse of the better half of humanity; to me, the female sex is not the weaker sex.

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In twenty years' time I'll be eighty-three, just an old man with a stick moving like a sloth bear. While I'm alive, I am fully committed to autonomy, and I am the person who can persuade the Tibetan people to accept it.

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Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

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Whatever a man wants badly and persistently enough will determine the man's character.

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I want to teach men the sense of their existence, which is the Superman, the lightning out of the dark cloud man.

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There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.

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What we want is muscles of iron and nerves of steel. We have wept long enough. No more weeping, but stand on your feet and be men. It is man-making theories that we want. It is man-making education all round that we want.

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It is not only arrogant, but it is profligate, for a man to disregard the world's opinion of himself.

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