"Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth."

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"What men are among the other formations of the earth, artists are among men."

Karl Schlegel, German Philosopher

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"Women may fall when there's no strength in men."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

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"Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor."

Friedrich Schiller, German Dramatist

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"If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Men do not have to cook their food; they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts."

Edmund Leach, British Scientist

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"There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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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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"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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"What men are among the other formations of the earth, artists are among men."

"Women may fall when there's no strength in men."

"Wine hath drowned more men than the sea."

"Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives."

"Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor."

"If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor."

"Men do not have to cook their food; they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts."

"There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them."

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

"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."

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"A religion without mystery must be a religion without God."

"Habits are the daughters of action, but then they nurse their mother, and produce daughters after her image, but far more beautiful and prosperous."

"He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he is exalted above his neighbors because he has more gold, how much inferior is he to a gold mine."

"No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires more, he proclaims his wants and his beggarly condition."

"If anger proceeds from a great cause, it turns to fury; if from a small cause, it is peevishness; and so is always either terrible or ridiculous."

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"Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend."

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