E Quotes
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“Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.”
“Every man to whom salvation is offered has an inalienable natural right to say 'No, thank you: I prefer to retain my full moral responsibility: it is not good for me to be able to load a scapegoat with my sins: I should be less careful how I committed them if I knew they would cost me nothing.”
Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more
“Every man today is the result of his thoughts yesterday.”
Source: Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
“Every man walks his own path, and every path has its fair share of locked doors. You never know who holds the key to a door you’ll need to open one day, so you best treat people as if they are all keyholders.”
Source: Rise of the Morningstar
“Every man wants commendation, so do not just commend your boss, commend those who are under you.”
Source: Create Your Own Net Worth
“Every man wants to be appreciated, so do not just commend your secretary, commend your wife at home too
The world judges people by money and status in the society, educational achievements, even racial background, this is unfortunate.”
Source: Create Your Own Net Worth
“Every man wants to connect his life with something he thinks eternal.”
“Every man wants to feel that his woman would love him apart from anything else.”
“Every man was created a one- and- only individual, as a person with a specific gift”
“Every man was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth.”
Source: The history of don Quixote de la Mancha. From the Span. To which is prefixed a sketch of the life and writings of the author. Select libr. ed
“Every man who accomplishes things sees first in his mind what he wishes to do. He puts away all doubt. It makes no difference how small or how large the thing you want to do may be; if you have an unlimited confidence in your ability to do it, you will do”
Source: Unity [devoted to Practical Christianity]
“Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy.”
Source: The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished
“Every man who becomes heartily and understandingly a channel of the Divine beneficence is enriched through every league of his life. Perennial satisfaction springs around and within him with perennial verdure. Flowers of gratitude and gladness bloom all along his pathway, and the melodious gurgle of the blessings be bears is echoed back by the melodious waves of the recipient stream.”
“Every man who begets a free act projects his personality into the infinite. If he gives a poor man a penny grudgingly, that penny pierces the poor man’s hand, falls, pierces the earth, bores holes in suns, crosses the firmament and compromises the universe. If he begets an impure act, he perhaps darkens thousands of hearts whom he does not know, who are mysteriously linked to him, and who need this man to be pure as a traveler dying of thirst needs the Gospel’s draught of water. A charitable act, an impulse of real pity sings for him the divine praises, from the time of Adam to the end of the ages; it cures the sick, consoles those in despair, calms storms, ransoms prisoners, converts the infidel and protects mankind”
Source: Pilgrim of the Absolute
“Every man who can be a first-rate something -- as every man can be who is a man at all -- has no right to be a fifth-rate something; for a fifth-rate something is not better than a first-rate nothing.”
“Every man who deserves to be famous knows it is not worth the trouble.”
“Every man who expresses an honest thought is a soldier in the army of intellectual liberty.”
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“Every man who has a calling to minister to the inhabitants of the world was ordained to that very purpose in the Grand Council of heaven before this world was. I suppose I was ordained to this very office in that Grand Council.”
“Every man who has an idol or admires someone can recognise its themes. It's not only a film about the relationship between fans and idols, it's also a love story, a story of a man who is depressed, who has problems in his relationship with his teenage step-children.”
“Every man who has declared that some other man is an ass or a scoundrel, gets angry when the other man conclusively shows that the assertion was erroneous.”
Source: A Book for Free Spirits 1: Human Book
“Every man who has in his soul a secret feeling of revolt against any act of the State, of life, or of destiny, is on the verge of riot; and so soon as it appears, he begins to quiver, and to feel himself borne away by the whirlwind.”
Source: Les Misérables
“Every man who has lived for fifty years has buried a whole world or even two; he has grown used to its disappearance and accustomed to the new scenery of another act: but suddenly the names and faces of a time long dead appear more and more often on his way, calling up series of shades and pictures kept somewhere, "just in case," in the endless catacombs of the memory, making him smile or sigh, and sometimes almost weep.”
“Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.”
“Every man who has reached even his intellectual teens begins to suspect that life is no farce; that it is not genteel comedy even; that it flowers and fructifies on the contrary out of the profoundest tragic depths of the essential dearth in which its subject's roots are plunged. The natural inheritance of everyone who is capable of spiritual life is an unsubdued forest where the wolf howls and the obscene bird of night chatters.”
“Every man who has seen the world knows that nothing is so useless as a general maxim.”
“Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a 'universal' without patriotism, without home, who has found his people everywhere.”
Source: My Name Is Asher Lev
“Every man who holds a sword in his hand, holds murder in his heart.”
Source: The Shadow of What Was Lost
“Every man who is acutely alive is acutely wrestling his own soul.”
Source: Women in Love
“Every man who is any kind of artist has a great deal of female in him. I act and give of myself as a man, but I register and receive with the soul of a woman. The only really good artists are feminine. I can't admit the existence of an artist whose dominant personality is masculine.”
Source: My Lunches with Orson: Conversations between Henry Jaglom and Orson Welles
“Every man who is high up likes to think he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that. It's our only joke. Every woman knows that.”
“Every man who is not a monster, a mathematician, or a mad philosopher, is the slave of some woman or other.”
Source: Silas Marner and Scenes of Clerical Life
“Every man who is not an artist is a traitor to his own nature.”
“Every man who is not for us in this prolonged struggle for liberty is responsible for the present degradation of the mothers of the race. It is pitiful to see how few men ever have made our cause their own, but while leaving us to fight our battle alone, they have been unsparing in their criticism of every failure. Of all the battles for liberty in the long past, woman only has been left to fight her own, without help and with all the powers of earth and heaven, human and divine, arrayed against her.”
Source: History of Woman Suffrage ...: 1883-1900
“Every man who is worth thirty millions and is not wedded to them, is dangerous to the government.”
Source: Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut
“Every man who knows anything of languages, knows that it is impossible to translate from one language into another, not only without losing a great part of the original, but frequently of mistaking the sense.”
Source: The age of reason
“Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.”
Source: Complete Essays: 1926-1929
“Every man who loses everlasting life rejects it himself. God denies it not to him-he will not come that he may have life.”
Source: The Doctrines of Grace
“Every man who loves his country, or wishes well to the best interests of society, will show himself a decided friend not only of morality and the laws, but of religious institutions, and honorably bear his part in supporting them.”
“Every man who loves peace, every man who loves his country, every man who loves liberty ought to have it ever before his eyes that he may cherish in his heart a due attachment to the Union of America and be able to set a due value on the means of preserving it.”
Source: The Essential Federalist: A New Reading of the Federalist Papers
“Every man who observes vigilantly, and resolves steadfastly, grows unconsciously into genius.”
“Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.”
Source: Essays, Comments, and Reviews
“Every man who praises himself brushes the luster from his best efforts.”
“Every man who records his illusions is providing data for the genuinely scientific psychology which the world still waits for.”
Source: Man and Superman
“Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.”
Source: Annihilation of Caste
“Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edward Gibbon (Illustrated)
“Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is doing a public service.”
Source: An Agnostic's Apology
“Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is so far doing a public service. We should be grateful to him for attacking most unsparingly our most cherished opinions.”
“Every man who speaks out loud and clear is tinting the "Zeitgeist." Every man who expresses what he honestly thinks is true is changing the Spirit of the Times. Thinkers help other people to think, for they formulate what others are thinking. No person writes or thinks alone--thought is in the air, but its expression is necessary to create a tangible Spirit of the Times.”
Source: So Here Then Cometh Pig-pen Pete; Or, Some Chums of Mine
“Every man who steeps himself in the spiritual possibilities of his heart is a valuable helper in the building of the spiritual pyramid which will someday reach to heaven.”
“Every man who strikes blows for power, for influence, for institutions, for the right, must be just as good an anvil as he is a hammer.”