"Men are often capable of greater things than they perform - They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent."

Man, Men, Credit, World

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"Men are often capable of greater things than they perform - They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent."

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"Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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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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"Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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"It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state."

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

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"It was only from an inner calm that man was able to discover and shape calm surroundings."

Stephen Gardiner, British Architect

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"By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense."

Wisdom

"This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel."

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"Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie."

Truth

"Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs."

Ambition

"Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations."

Nature

"I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule."

Age

"It was said of old Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, that she never puts dots over her I s, to save ink."

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"Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice."

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

"Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so."

"It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one."

"Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die."

"Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable."

"All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God."

"Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable."

"If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state."

"It was only from an inner calm that man was able to discover and shape calm surroundings."

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"By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense."

"This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel."

"Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie."

"Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs."

"The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those who feel."

"The wisest prophets make sure of the event first."

"Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice."

"Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations."

"I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule."

"It was said of old Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, that she never puts dots over her I s, to save ink."