John Donne Quotes, Atheist Quotes, Men Quotes

God affords no man the comfort, the false comfort of Atheism: He will not allow a pretending Atheist the power to flatter himself, so far, as to seriously think there is no God.

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That which is won ill, will never wear well, for there is a curse attends it, which will waste it; and the same corrupt dispositions which incline men to the sinful ways of getting, will incline them to the like sinful ways of spending.

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Great men, great nations, have not been boasters and buffoons, but perceivers of the terror of life, and have manned themselves to face it.

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If you see a man approaching with the obvious intent of doing you good, run for your life. Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.

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[A ruler is merely] the trustee of the rights of other men and he must always stand in dread of having in some way violated these rights.

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Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me man? Did I solicit thee From darkness to promote me?

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There is music in all things, if men had ears.

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I don't know if there are men on the moon, but if there are they must be using the earth as their lunatic asylum

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Most men unconsciously judge the world from themselves, and it will be very generally found that those who sneer habitually at human nature, and affect to despise it, are among its worst and least pleasant samples.

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No man will say, "There is no God" 'till he is so hardened in sin that it has become his interest that there should be none to call him to account.

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Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.

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Both Self-restraint and Unrestraint are a matter of extremes as compared with the character of the mass of mankind; the restrained man shows more and the unrestrained man less steadfastness than most men are capable of.

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A man may be defeated by his own secondary successes.

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Her companion's discourse now sunk from its hitherto animated pitch, to nothing more than a short, decisive sentence of praise or condemnation on the face of every woman they met; and Catherine, after listening and agreeing as long as she could,with all the civility and deference of the youthful female mind, fearful of hazarding an opinion of its own in opposition to that of a self-assured man, especially where the beauty of her own sex is concerned, ventured at length to vary the subject.

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Every man speaks of public opinion, and means by public opinion, public opinion minus his opinion.

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The instinct of a man is to pursue everything that flies from him, and to fly from all that pursue him.

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...the primary paradox that man is superior to all the things around him and yet is at their mercy.

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somewhere in sands of the desert A shape with lion body and the head of a man, A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun, Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.

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With a woman, always make good use of a secret. She will be proportionally grateful to you, like a scoundrel who grants his respect to an honest man he has been unable to swindle.

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An observer of men who finds himself steadily repelled by some apparently trifling thing in a stranger is right to give it great weight. It may be the clue to the whole mystery. A hair or two will show where a lion is hidden. A very little key will open a very heavy door.

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