"What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care."

Man, Men, Care, Worth

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"What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care."

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"In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

Man, Men, Truth, May, Order

"A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

Man, Skill

"In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

Man, Men, History, Necessity

"A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

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"The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble."

Henry Miller, American Author

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"There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in."

Will Rogers, American Actor

Man, Nothing

"The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

Man, Men

"Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

Man, Men, Goodness

"In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"A man can take a little bourbon without getting drunk, but if you hold his mouth open and pour in a quart, he's going to get sick on it."

Lyndon B. Johnson, American President

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"The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction."

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"Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius."

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"Mirth is better than fun and happiness is better than mirth."

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"The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose."

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"Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age."

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"No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings."

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"In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it."

"A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery."

"In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary."

"A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him."

"The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble."

"There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in."

"The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything."

"Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental."

"In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad."

"A man can take a little bourbon without getting drunk, but if you hold his mouth open and pour in a quart, he's going to get sick on it."

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"The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction."

"Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius."

"Mirth is better than fun and happiness is better than mirth."

"The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose."

"The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest."

"Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion."

"Some are born to sweet delight, Some are born to endless night."

"As a man is so he sees."

"Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age."

"No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings."