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• There are decades in the making of the one man of renown; Multitudes that go unnoticed who must wreathe for him a crown.

  Christopher Paolini

  Men, Crowns, Fame

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• We consider ourselves to be free because no one in our society is allowed unlimited powerno leader, faction, party or 'class', no majority, no government, church, corporation, trade, or professional association or trade union. The secret of its freedom is that it is composed of a multitude of organisations in the constitution of the best of which is reproduced that diffusion of power which is characteristic of the whole.

  Michael Joseph Oakeshott

  Party, Government, Class

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• Knowledge is praised and desired by multitudes whom her charms could never rouse from the couch of sloth; whom the faintest invitation of pleasure draws away from their studies; to whom any other method of wearing the day is more eligible than the use of books, and who are more easily engaged by any conversation than such as may rectify their notions or enlarge their comprehension.

  Samuel Johnson

  Book, Knowledge, Sloth

  Giuseppe Marco Antonio Baretti, Samuel Johnson (1778). “A Grammar of the Italian Language: With a Copious Praxis of Moral Sentences. To which is Added an English Grammar for the Use of the Italians”, p.324

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• When we imagine our Universe to be just one out of a multitude of possible worlds we devalue this world, the one we see, the one we should be trying to explain.

  Roberto Unger

  Trying, World, Imagine

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• The surface personality is only the beginning of what we are. So as we meditate, we still that surface personality, we can see beyond it, and we see that we encompass multitudes.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Personality

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• The hostile multitudes are vast as spaceWhat chance is there that all should be subdued? Let but this angry mind be overthrownAnd every foe is then and there destroyed

  Shantideva

  Freedom, Mind, Chance

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• A government by the passions of the multitude, or, no less correctly, according to the vices, and ambitions of their leaders is a democracy.

  Fisher Ames

  Passion, Ambition, Government

  Fisher Ames (1809). “Works of Fisher Ames”, p.429

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• Many ingenious lovely things are gone / That seemed sheer miracle to the multitude.

  William Butler Yeats

  Miracle, Lovely, Gone

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.210, Simon and Schuster

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• The swelling and towering omnibuses, the huge trucks and wagons and carriages, the impetuous hansoms and the more sobered four-wheelers, the pony-carts, donkey-carts, hand-carts, and bicycles which fearlessly find their way amidst the turmoil, with foot-passengers winding in and out, and covering the sidewalks with their multitude, give the effect of a single monstrous organism, which writhes swiftly along the channel where it had run in the figure of a flood till you were tired of that metaphor. You are now a molecule of that vast organism.

  William Dean Howells

  Running, Tired, Science

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• Sometimes I feel like I'm possessed with a multitude of demons.

  Johnny Depp

  Sometimes, Demon, Feels

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• Trusting people to be creative and constructive when given more freedom does not imply an overly optimistic belief in the perfectibility of human nature. It is, rather, belief that the inevitable errors and sins of the human condition are far better overcome by individuals working together in an environment of trust and freedom and mutual respect than by individuals working under a multitude of rules, regulations, and restraints imposed upon them by another group of imperfect individuals.

  Peter Senge

  Optimistic, Errors, People

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• It is the practice of the multitude to bark at eminent men, as little dogs do at strangers.

  Seneca the Younger

  Dog, Men, Practice

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 226-27, Of a Happy Life, Chapter XIX, 1922.

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• Such are thou and I: but what I am thou canst not be; what thou art any one of the multitude may be.

  Martial

  Art, May

  "Epigrams". V. 13. 9, c. 80-104 AD.

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• It has been handed down in mythical form from earliest times to posterity, that there are gods, and that the divine (Deity) compasses all nature. All beside this has been added, after the mythical style, for the purpose of persuading the multitude, and for the interests of the laws, and the advantage of the state.

  Aristotle

  Law, Style, Purpose

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• What many men desire--that 'many' may be meant By the fool multitude that choose by show, Not learning more than the fond eye doth teach, Which pries not to th' interior, but like the martlet Builds in the weather on the outward wall, Even in the force and road of casualty.

  William Shakespeare

  Wall, Eye, Men

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 2, sc. 9, l. 25

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• We know that words cannot move mountains, but they can move the multitude; and men are more ready to fight and die for a word than for anything else. Words shape thought, stir feeling, and beget action; they kill and revive, corrupt and cure. The "men-of-words"- priests, prophets, intellectuals- have played a more decisive role in history than military leaders, statesmen, and businessmen.

  Eric Hoffer

  Military, Moving, Fighting

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Once I unlocked the mystery of the alphabet that led to words, a multitude of words connecting me to the world, there was no stopping me.

  Gloria Naylor

  Stopping, World, Alphabet

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• The individual is foolish; the multitude, for the moment is foolish, when they act without deliberation; but the species is wise, and, when time is given to it, as a species it always acts right.

  Edmund Burke

  Wise, Moments, Foolish

  Edmund Burke (1963). “Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches”, p.398, Transaction Publishers

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• He who hangs on the errors of the ignorant multitude, must not be counted among great men.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Men, Errors, Ignorant

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, De Officiis (44 B.C.), I. 19, p. 647-49, 1922.

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• Our Exhibitions [The Royal Academy] have... a mischievous tendency, by seducing the Painter to an ambition of pleasing indiscriminately the mixed multitude of people who resort to them.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Ambition, People, Exhibitions

  Sir Joshua Reynolds (1837). “Discourses on Painting and the Fine Arts, delivered at the Royal Academy. With a portrait”, p.86

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• The glorious memory of brave men is continually renewed; the fame of those who have performed any noble deed is never allowed to die; and the renown of those who have done good service to their country becomes a matter of common knowledge to the multitude, and part of the heritage of posterity.

  Polybius

  Country, Memories, Men

  Polybius, Friedrich Hultsch (1889). “The Histories”

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• When compassion for the common man was born on Christmas Day, with it was born new hope among the multitudes. They feel a great, ever-rising determination to lift themselves and their children our of hunger and disease and misery, up to a higher level. Jesus started a fire upon the earth, and it is burning hot today, the fire of a new hope in the hearts of the hungry multitudes.

  Frank Laubach

  Jesus, Determination, Children

  Frank Charles Laubach (1958). “The world is learning compassion”

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• The follies, vices, and consequent miseries of multitudes, displayed in a newspaper, are so many admonitions and warnings, so many beacons, continually burning, to turn others from the rocks on which they have been shipwrecked.

  Thomas Hartwell Horne

  Rocks, Warning, Vices

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• You can stick with a few clear-cut values, which are stronger than a multitude of values and will obviously yield a stronger painting. But not all subjects or light conditions appear that way... be sensible and paint with values that are appropriate and faithful to your subject.

  Richard Schmid

  Cutting, Yield, Light

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• How many hearts with warm, red blood in them are beating under cover of the woods, and how many teeth and eyes are shining? A multitude of animal people, intimately related to us, but of whose lives we know almost nothing, are as busy about their own affairs as we are about ours.

  John Muir

  Adventure, Eye, Heart

  John Muir, Peter Browning (1988). “John Muir, in His Own Words: A Book of Quotations”, p.59, Great West Books

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