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Men may seem detestable as joint stock-companies and nations; knaves, fools, and murderers there may be; men may have mean and meagre faces; but man, in the ideal, is so noble and so sparkling, such a grand and glowing creature, that over any ignominious blemish in him all his fellows should run to throw their costliest robes.

– Herman Melville, Moby DickRate it:

Men moving only in an official circle are apt to become merely official -- not to say arbitrary -- in their ideas, and are apter and apter with each passing day to forget that they only hold power in a representative capacity.

– William AdamsRate it:

Men must be decided on what they will not do, and then they are able to act with vigor in what they ought to do.

– MenciusRate it:

Men must be taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown proposed as things forgot.

– Alexander PopeRate it:

Men must have the right of choice, even to choose wrong, if he shall ever learn to choose right

– Josiah C. WedgewoodRate it:

Men need discipline! Countries need discipline! World needs discipline! He who wants to be successful needs discipline! Be a man of discipline!

– Mehmet Murat ildanRate it:

Men need usually full training while Women require often only a fine tuning for a scintillating acting in a real movie called life.

– Anuj SomanyRate it:

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.

– Blaise PascalRate it:

Men normally don’t weep easily but when the heart of a man cries, it even dries the tears in his eyes; definitely not sure in case of women as a woman can shed tears readily for anything often.

– Anuj SomanyRate it:

Men now monopolize the upper levels depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence.

– Laurence J. PeterRate it:

Men occasionally stumble on the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

– Winston ChurchillRate it:

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

– Sir Winston ChurchillRate it:

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted

– Author UnknownRate it:

Men of genius are often dull and inert in society, as a blazing meteor when it descends to earth, is only a stone.

– Henry Wadsworth LongfellowRate it:

Men of genius are often dull and inert in society, as the blazing meteor when it descends to earth is only a stone.

– LongfellowRate it:

Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.

– William HazlittRate it:

Men of ill judgment oft ignore the good That lies within their hands, till they have lost it.

– SophoclesRate it:

Men of ill judgment oft ignore the goodThat lies within their hands, till they have lost it.

– Sophocles, AjaxRate it:

Men of immeasurable greatness are tossed about in the ebb and flow of words.

– Yunmen WenyanRate it:

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

– Leonardo da VinciRate it:

Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till some one dash it from them.

– SophoclesRate it:

Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war . . .

– AristophanesRate it:

Men of strong minds and who think for themselves, should not be discouraged on finding occasionally that some of their best ideas have been anticipated by former writers; they will neither anathematize others nor despair themselves. They will rather go on discovering things before discovered, until they are rewarded with a land hitherto unknown, an empire indisputably their own, both right of conquest and of discovery.

– C. C. ColtonRate it:

Men of the noblest dispositions think themselves happiest when others share their happiness with them.

– Barry DuncanRate it:

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