Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes, Night Quotes, Men Quotes

The outer world, from which we cower into our houses, seemed after all a gentle habitable place; and night after night a man's bed, it seemed, was laid and waiting for him in the fields, where God keeps an open house.

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A man of maxims only is like a Cyclops with one eye, and that in the back of his head.

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If a man remembers what is right at the sign of profit, is ready to lay down his life in the face of danger, and does not forget sentiments he has repeated all his life when he has been in straitened circumstances for a long time, he may be said to be a complete man.

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If there is no meditation, then you are like a blind man in a world of great beauty, light and colour.

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A sea captain when he stands upon the bridge, or looks out from his deck-house, thinks much about God and about the world. Away in the valley yonder among the corn and the poppies men may well forget all things except the warmth of the sun upon the face, and the kind shadow under the hedge; but he who journeys through storm and darkness must needs think and think.

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Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Journey Quotes , Men Quotes

If you are to judge a man, you must know his secret thoughts, sorrows, and feelings; to know merely the outward events of a man's life would only serve to make a chronological table-a fool's notion of history.

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The more I detest men individually the more ardent becomes my love for humanity.

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Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat - seamy on both sides.

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I am the poet of the woman the same as the man, And I say it is as great to be a woman as to be a man, And I say there is nothing greater than the mother of a man.

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Animals are neither gods nor fiends, but men in their way without the lust and greed of man.

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All men thirst to confess their crimes more than tired beasts thirst for water; but they naturally object to confessing them while other people, who have also committed the same crimes, sit by and laugh at them.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Tired Quotes , Men Quotes

True or false, that which is said of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their destinies, as that which they do.

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Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Destiny Quotes , Men Quotes

Every industrious man, in every lawful calling, is a useful man. And one principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect their own profession or calling, and divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.

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Sugar and sand may be mixed together, but the ant rejects the sand and goes off with the sugar grain; so pious men lift the good from the bad.

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The life of man is a self-evolving circle, which, from a ring imperceptibly small, rushes on all sides outwards to new and largercircles, and that without end.

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Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.

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When liberty becomes license, some form of one-man power is not far distant.

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This pleasure comes precisely from the sharpest awareness of your own degradation; from the knowledge that you have gone to the utmost limit; that it is despicable, yet cannot be otherwise; that you no longer have any way out; that you will never become a different man.

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Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

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The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.

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