"Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top."

Man, Men, Anxiety, Birds, Dogs

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"Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top."

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"In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."

George Eliot, British Author

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"A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

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"In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

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"The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble."

Henry Miller, American Author

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"The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men."

Lyndon B. Johnson, American President

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"There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in."

Will Rogers, American Actor

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"The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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"Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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"Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp. Or what's a heaven for?"

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"What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold."

Age

"I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time."

Trust

"White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life's business being just the terrible choice."

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"That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture!"

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"In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it."

"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."

"A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery."

"In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary."

"A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him."

"The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble."

"The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men."

"There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in."

"The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything."

"Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental."

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"Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp. Or what's a heaven for?"

"What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold."

"I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time."

"White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life's business being just the terrible choice."

"A minute's success pays the failure of years."

"Take away love and our earth is a tomb."

"What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop?"

"Faultless to a fault."

"What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew."

"That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture!"