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Sydney Smith

"Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time."

Sydney Smith, English Clergyman
Men, Time, People
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"Women may fall when there's no strength in men."

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

Billy Graham, 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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"But men are men; the best sometimes forget."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist
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"Men find it difficult because I've got so much energy and hardly sleep at night, only four or five hours. I wake up in the early hours and potter around."

Susannah York, British Actress
Men, Energy, Night, Sleep
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"The fault seems to me to have been that men have taken ancient country churches as their models and have failed to discover that between them and churches in towns there ought to be a most distinct and marked difference."

George Edmund Street, English Architect
Men, Churches, Country, Difference
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"Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist
Men, Adversity
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"Men and women of high professional standing have been reduced to the status of vagrants."

Elmer Rice, American Playwright
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"I never read a book before previewing it; it prejudices a man so."
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"Bishop Berkeley destroyed this world in one volume octavo; and nothing remained, after his time, but mind; which experienced a similar fate from the hand of Mr. Hume in 1737."
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"What a pity it is that we have no amusements in England but vice and religion!"
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"It is safest to be moderately base - to be flexible in shame, and to be always ready for what is generous, good, and just, when anything is to be gained by virtue."
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"I have, alas, only one illusion left, and that is the Archbishop of Canterbury."
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"To business that we love we rise bedtime, and go to't with delight."
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"Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed."
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