"Hope! of all ills that men endure, the only cheap and universal cure."

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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

Man, Men, God, Knowledge

"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."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

Man, Sense

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

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

Man, Men

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

Georg C. Lichtenberg, German Physicist

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

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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

Sigmund Freud, Austrian Psychologist

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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."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

Man, Men, Now

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

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

Man, Occupation

"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."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

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"How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man."

Ovid, Roman Poet

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"I would not fear nor wish my fate, but boldly say each night, tomorrow let my sun his beams display, or in clouds hide them; I have lived today."

Fear

"The world's a scene of changes, and to be constant, in nature were inconstancy."

Nature

"God the first garden made, and the first city Cain."

God

"This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high."

Lie

"A mighty pain to love it is, and 'tis a pain that pain to miss; but of all the pains, the greatest pain is to love, but love in vain."

Love

"Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity."

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

"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."

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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."

"How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man."

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"I would not fear nor wish my fate, but boldly say each night, tomorrow let my sun his beams display, or in clouds hide them; I have lived today."

"The world's a scene of changes, and to be constant, in nature were inconstancy."

"God the first garden made, and the first city Cain."

"This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high."

"A mighty pain to love it is, and 'tis a pain that pain to miss; but of all the pains, the greatest pain is to love, but love in vain."

"Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity."

"Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion."

"Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make."

"Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure."

"Life is an incurable disease."