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• No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly assistance, or to extinguish the desire of fond endearments and tender officiousness; and, therefore, no one should think it unnecessary to learn those arts by which friendship may be gained.

  Samuel Johnson

  Art, Thinking, Humanity

  Samuel Johnson (1836). “Johnsoniana: Or, Supplement to Boswell: Being Anecdotes and Sayings of Dr. Johnson”, p.384

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• The hostility perpetually exercised between one man and another, is caused by the desire of many for that which only few can possess. Every man would be rich, powerful, and famous; yet fame, power, and riches, are only the names of relative conditions, which imply the obscurity, dependence, and poverty of greater numbers.

  Samuel Johnson

  Powerful, Numbers, Names

  Samuel Johnson (1784). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes..”, p.125

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• The power, indeed, of every individual is small, and the consequence of his endeavours imperceptible, in a general prospect of the world. Providence has given no man ability to do much, that something might be left for every man to do. The business of life is carried on by a general co-operation; in which the part of any single man can be no more distinguished, than the effect of a particular drop when the meadows are floated by a summer shower: yet every drop increases the inundation, and every hand adds to the happiness or misery of mankind.

  Samuel Johnson

  Summer, Hands, Humanity

  Samuel Johnson (1810). “The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An essay on his life and genius”, p.291

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• The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which seeks to understands the minds of other men and women.

  Learned Hand

  Freedom, Mind, Liberty

  "The Spirit of Liberty" (speech), New York, N.Y., 21 May 1944

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• Freedom of expression is the well-spring of our civilization... The history of civilization is in considerable measure the displacement of error which once held sway as official truth by beliefs which in turn have yielded to other truths. Therefore the liberty of man to search for truth ought not to be fettered, no matter what orthodoxies he may challenge.

  Felix Frankfurter

  Freedom, Spring, Civilization

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• Thus the criminal ceases to be a person, a subject of rights and duties, and becomes merely an object on which society can work. And this is, in principle, how Hitler treated the Jews. They were objects; killed not for ill desert but because, on his theories, they were a disease in society. If society can mend, remake, and unmake men at its pleasure, its pleasure may, of course, be humane or homicidal. The difference is important. But, either way, rulers have become owners.

  C. S. Lewis

  Rights, Differences, Humanity

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• A man may have to die for our country: but no man must, in any exclusive sense, live for his country. He who surrenders himself without reservation to the temporal claims of a nation, or a party, or a class is rendering to Caesar that which, of all things, most emphatically belongs to God: himself.

  C. S. Lewis

  Country, Party, Class

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “Virtue and Vice: A Dictionary of the Good Life”, p.11, Harper Collins

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• Nonviolence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute. The spirit lies dormant in the brute, and he knows no law but that of physical might. The dignity of man requires obedience to a higher laws - to the strength of the spirit.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, Lying, Law

  "The Doctrine Of The Sword". Young India, www.mkgandhi.org. August 11, 1920.

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• This would be a tricky operation, no doubt of that, and a mistake would probably be fatal. So many things he had done over the years would have been fatal, had his luck not been strongly good. He had cheated death dozens of times, but that did not mean he could take it as a given. A man needed only one fatal mistake to end the game.

  Steve Perry

  Cheating, Mistake, Mean

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• Prayer is the language of a man burdened with a sense of need.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Needs, Language

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• The Angel's bread is made the Bread of man today.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Angel, Today, Bread

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• Some degree of withdrawal serves to nurture man's creative powers. The artist and the scientist bring out of the dark void, like the mysterious universe itself, the unique, the strange, the unexpected. Numerous observers have testified upon the loneliness of the process.

  Loren Eiseley

  Loneliness, Creativity, Dark

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• Modern man's difficulties, dangerous beliefs and feelings of loneliness, spiritual emptiness,and personal weakness are caused by his illusions about, and separation from, the natural world.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Spiritual, Loneliness, Feelings

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• Any man who is really a man must learn to be alone in the midst of others, to think alone for others, and, if necessary, against others.

  Romain Rolland

  Loneliness, Thinking, Solitude

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• Ah! I need solitude. I have come forth to this hill at sunset to see the forms of the mountains in the horizon - to behold and commune with something grander than man. Their mere distance and unprofanedness is an infinite encouragement. it is with infinite yearning and aspiration that I seek solitude, more and more resolved and strong; but with a certain weakness that I seek society ever.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Encouragement, Strong, Distance

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.135, Courier Corporation

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• I am convinced that all our attempts to change the letter of the law and to reeducate people have been, and are, merely band-aid solutions for a fatal hemorrhage. The system will never change because our starting point is flawed. The secular view of man can neither give the grandeur that God alone can give, nor can it see the evil within the human heart that God alone can reveal and cure, for atheism implicitly denudes each individual of the grand image God has imprinted upon His creation.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Heart, Views, Law

  Ravi Zacharias (2004). “Can Man Live Without God”, p.140, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The cross stands as a mystery because it is foreign to everything we exalt- self over principle, power over meekness, the quick fix over the long haul, cover-up over confession, escapism over confrontation, conform over sacrifice, feeling over commitment, legality over justice, the body over the spirit, anger over forgiveness, man over God.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Forgiveness, God, Christian

  FaceBook post by Ravi Zacharias from Sep 01, 2014

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• While God waits for His temple to be built of love, men bring stones.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Love, Waiting, Stones

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.577, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• A lover is a man who tries to be more amiable than it is possible for him to be.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Love, Trying, Amiable

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• A young man is embarrassed to question an older one.

  Homer

  Age, Young, Embarrassed

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• When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.

  Jonathan Swift

  Sacrifice, Leaving, Age

  Jonathan Swift, Thomas Sheridan (1813). “The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift...”, p.365

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• From forty to fifty a man must move upward, or the natural falling off in the vigor of life will carry him rapidly downward.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Moving, Fall, Inspirational Birthday

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• Much smoking kills live men and cures dead swine.

  George D. Prentice

  Marijuana, Cigarette Smoke, Smoking

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• Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.

  Ben Jonson

  Cigarette Smoke, Smoking, Pleasure

  'Every Man in His Humour' (1598) act 3, sc. 5

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• Men professing godliness offer their bodies upon Satan's altar, and burn the incense of tobacco to his satanic majesty. Does this statement seem severe? The offering must be presented to some deity. Since God is pure and holy, and will accept nothing defiling in its character, He refuses this expensive, filthy, and unholy sacrifice; therefore we conclude that Satan is the one who claims the honor.

  Ellen G. White

  Character, Sacrifice, Offering

  Ellen G. White (2000). “Steps to Christ for a Joy-Filled Life”

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