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John Sterling

"Man is a substance clad in shadows."

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"Man is a substance clad in shadows."

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

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"The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations."

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"Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle."

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"With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet."

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"Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others."

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"Pride slays thanksgiving, but an humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves."

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"Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another."

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"The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men."

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"A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation."

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"Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind."

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"Man is a substance clad in shadows."
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