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  • I think that one of the causes of these repeated failures is that our best and greatest men have greatly underestimated the size of this question (slavery). They have constantly brought forward small cures for great sores-plasters too small to cover the wound. That is one reason that all settlements have proved so temporary-so evanescent.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Men Quotes , Thinking Quotes
  • 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.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Plato Quotes , Country Quotes , Men Quotes
  • How great is the path proper to the Sage! Like overflowing water, it sends forth and nourishes all things, and rises up to the height of heaven. All-complete is its greatness! It embraces the three hundred rules of ceremony, and the three thousand rules of demeanor. It waits for the proper man, and then it is trodden. Hence it is said, 'Only by perfect virtue can the perfect path, in all its courses, be made a fact.'
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Confucius Quotes , Greatness Quotes , Men Quotes
  • [T]he recognition of private property has really harmed Individualism, and obscured it, by confusing a man with what he possesses. It has led Individualism entirely astray. It has made gain, not growth its aim. So that man thought that the important thing is to have, and did not know that the important thing is to be.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Men Quotes , Confusing Quotes
  • It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Confidence Quotes , Men Quotes