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  • Men should soon make up their minds to be forgotten, and look about them, or within them, for some higher motive in what they do than the approbation of men, which is fame, namely, their duty; that they should be constantly and quietly at work, each in his sphere, regardless of effects, and leaving their fame to take care of itself.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Men Quotes , Leaving Quotes
  • In the Fiji islands, it appears, cannibalism is now familiar. They eat thier own wives and children. We only devour widows' houses, and great merchants outwit and absorb the substance of small ones, and every man feeds on his neighbor's labor if he can. It is a milder form of cannibalism.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Children Quotes , Men Quotes
  • We despise and abhor the bully, the brawler, the oppressor, whether in private or public life, but we despise no less the coward and the voluptuary. No man is worth calling a man who will not fight rather than submit to infamy or see those that are dear to him suffer wrong.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Fighting Quotes , Men Quotes
  • The real difference between democracy and oligarchy is poverty and wealth. Wherever men rule by reason of their wealth, whether they be few or many, that is an oligarchy, and where the poor rule, that is a democracy.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Real Quotes , Men Quotes
  • The man of system is apt to be very wise in his own conceit. In the great chess board of human society, every single piece has a principle of motion of its own altogether different from that which the legislature might choose to impress upon it
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Adam Smith Quotes , Wise Quotes , Men Quotes