"Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit; few people are modest enough not to take offense that one appreciates them."

Marquis De Vauvenargues, French Philosopher

Men, People, Merit, Praise

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"Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit; few people are modest enough not to take offense that one appreciates them."

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"Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom."

Charles Spurgeon, British Clergyman

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"When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung."

Henry Ward Beecher, American Clergyman

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"Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men."

Thomas Huxley, English Scientist

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"There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

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"But men are men; the best sometimes forget."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

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"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Men, Time, Women, Being

"Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot."

Henry Ward Beecher, American Clergyman

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"Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties."

Charles Spurgeon, British Clergyman

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"The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success."

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"When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it should be rejected."

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"You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character."

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"Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom."

"When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung."

"Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men."

"There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men."

"But men are men; the best sometimes forget."

"The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same."

"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages."

"Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course."

"All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot."

"Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties."

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"One promises much, to avoid giving little."

"Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something."

"If people did not compliment one another there would be little society."

"Emotions have taught mankind to reason."

"The idle always have a mind to do something."

"Great thoughts always come from the heart."

"The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success."

"There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do."

"When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it should be rejected."

"You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character."