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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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"Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor."

Friedrich Schiller, German Dramatist
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"Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men."

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"I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all."

Alexis de Tocqueville, French Scientist
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"All men are somewhat ridiculous and grotesque, just because they are men; and in this respect artists might well be regarded as man multiplied by two. So it is, was, and shall be."

Karl Schlegel, German Philosopher
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"Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind."

W. Somerset Maugham, British Playwright
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"It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor; as such differences become less, it grows feeble; and when they disappear, it will vanish too."

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