Men
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A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is a man who hopes they are.
Great things are done when men and mountains meet.
If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious.
It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.
Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.
Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.
Because all of us believe and understand in the fabric of the common bond of why we call ourselves American is to care for the men and women who wear the uniform; and when they take off the uniform, we care for them when they are veterans.
I have lived too long to cherish many illusions about the essential high-mindedness of men when brought into stark confrontation with the issue of control over their security, and their property interests.
Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings.
Men lose all the material things they leave behind them in this world, but they carry with them the reward of their charity and the alms they give. For these, they will receive from the Lord the reward and recompense they deserve.
The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.
The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other — instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.
The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author; salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure.
Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
Men know not the gold which lies in the mine of Christ Jesus, or surely they would dig in it night and day. They have not yet discovered the pearl of great price, or they would have sold their all to buy the field wherein it lies.
My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests.
There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature.
Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
The goal of education is not to increase the amount of knowledge but to create the possibilities for a child to invent and discover, to create men who are capable of doing new things.
Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
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