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

Marquis De Vauvenargues, French Philosopher

Men, Fear, Hope, Nothing

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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

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"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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"Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts."

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"You are not born for fame if you don't know the value of time."

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

"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."

"Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts."

"Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself."

"You are not born for fame if you don't know the value of time."

"The art of pleasing is the art of deception."

"The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature."

"To possess taste, one must have some soul."