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  • The darkness grew apace; a cold wind began to blow in freshening gusts from the east, and the showering white flakes in the air increased in number. From the edge of the sea came a ripple and whisper. Beyond these lifeless sounds the world was silent. Silent? It would be hard to convey the stillness of it. All the sounds of man, the bleating of sheep, the cries of birds, the hum of insects, the stir that makes the background of our lives - all that was over.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : H. G. Wells Quotes , Blow Quotes , Men Quotes
  • The time is fast approaching when to call a man a patriot will be the deepest insult you can offer him. Patriotism now means advocating plunder in the interest of the privileged classes of the particular State system into which we have happened to be born.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Mean Quotes , Men Quotes
  • Man and his deed are two distinct things. Whereas a good deed should call forth approbation and a wicked deed dis-approbation, the doer of the deed, whether good or wicked always deserves respect or pity as the case may be. Hate the sin and not the sinner is a precept which though easy enough to understand is rarely practised, and that is why the poison of hatred spreads in the world.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Hate Quotes , Men Quotes
  • Let a man attain the highest and broadest culture that any American has possessed, then let him die by sea-storm, railroad collision, or other accident, and all America will acquiesce that the best thing has happened to him; that, after the education has gone far, such is the expensiveness of America, that the best use to put a fine person to is to drown him to save his board.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Men Quotes , Sea Quotes
  • The best lesson that any people can learn is that there is no patent cure-all which will make the body politic perfect, and that any man who is able glibly to answer every question as to how to deal with the evils of the body politic is at best a foolish visionary and at worst an evil-minded quack.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Men Quotes , People Quotes
  • I am approached with the most opposite opinions and advice, and that by religious men, who are equally certain that they represent the Divine will. I am sure that either the one or the other class is mistaken in that belief, and perhaps in some respects both.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Religious Quotes , Men Quotes
  • Among the rich you will never find a really generous man even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away; they are egotistic, secretive, dry as old bones. To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it.
  • 5 years ago



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