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“Whilst we assert for ourselves a freedom to embrace, to profess and observe the Religion which we believe to be of divine origin, we cannot deny equal freedom to those whose minds have not yet yielded to the evidence which has convinced us. If this freedom be abused, it is an offense against God, not against man:To God, therefore, not to man, must an account of it be rendered.”

Ifs Men Mind Believe Religion Divine Equal Evidence Accounts Embrace Deny Convinced Offense

Book:Religious Freedom. A memorial and remonstrance drawn by ... J. Madison, late President of the United States, ... against the general assessment in

Source: Religious Freedom. A memorial and remonstrance drawn by ... J. Madison, late President of the United States, ... against the general assessment in

“Whoever is wise is apt to suspect and be diffident of himself, and upon that account is willing to "hearken unto counsel"; whereas the foolish man, being in proportion to his folly full of himself, and swallowed up in conceit, will seldom take any counsel but his own, and for that very reason, because it is his own.”

Men Reason Wisdom Wise Willing Accounts Foolish Proportion Folly Suspects Conceit Foolish Man

Author:John Balguy

“Men are found to be vainer on account of those qualities which they fondly believe they have than of those which they really have.”

Men Believe Found Quality Accounts Conceit

Author:Vincent Voiture

“The world comes second hand - fifth hand - to us and the illusion that it is fresh because it is shown as a picture of an actual place or is given as a 'true account' by some reporter who claims to have been 'there' divides man into incalculable parts without any true center.”

Men World Has Beens Hands Given Media Television Illusion Accounts Claims Movie Divides Reporters Fifth Second Hand

Author:Josephine Herbst

“Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws. Their origin is pure vanity. Their result is absolutely nil. They give us, now and then, some of those luxurious sterile emotions that have a certain charm for the weak.... They are simply cheques that men draw on a bank where they have no account.”

Men Giving Law Certain Results Emotion Pure Draws Weak Accounts Vanity Useless Charm Resolution Now And Then Interfere Respectability Luxurious Cheques

Book:The Picture of Dorian Gray and Three Stories

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray and Three Stories

“Such men alone are my readers, my proper readers, my preordained readers. Of what account are the rest? The rest are simply... humanity. One must be superior to humanity in power, in loftiness of soul- in contempt.”

Men Soul Humanity Reader Accounts Superiors Contempt

Book:Twilight of the Idols with the Antichrist and Ecce Homo

Source: Twilight of the Idols with the Antichrist and Ecce Homo

“This is the blessed life-not anxious to see far in front, nor eager to choose the path, but quietly following behind the Shepherd, one step at a time. The Shepherd was always out in front of the sheep. He was down in front. Any attack upon them had to take him into account. Now God is down in front. He is in the tomorrows. It is tomorrow that fills men with dread. God is there already. All the tomorrows of our life have to pass Him before they can get to us.”

Men Behinds Steps Path Our Lives Fronts Tomorrow Accounts Blessed Following Anxious Sheep Dread Shepherds Blessed Life One Step At A Time God Is There

Author:F.B. Meyer

“I know that the history of man is not his technical triumphs, his kills, his victories. It is a composite, a mosaic of a trillion pieces, the account of each man's accommodation with his conscience. This is the true history of the race.”

Knows Men Race Pieces Victory Conscience Accounts Triumph Accommodations Mosaics Composites

Book:The Last Castle

Source: The Last Castle

“To be a great man it is necessary to turn to account all opportunities.”

Men Turns Opportunity Accounts Great Men

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“The conduct of a man, who studies philosophy in this careless manner, is more truly sceptical than that of any one, who feeling inhimself an inclination to it, is yet so over-whelm'd with doubts and scruples, as totally to reject it. A true sceptic will be diffident of his philosophical doubts, as well as of his philosophical conviction; and will never refuse any innocent satisfaction, which offers itself, upon account of either of them.”

Men Wells Philosophy Feelings Study Doubt Offers Accounts Philosophical Satisfaction Refuse Conviction Innocent Rejects Skepticism Inclination Careless Scruples Sceptic

Book:A Treatise of Human Nature

Source: A Treatise of Human Nature

“It is the fate of most men who mingle with the world, and attain even the prime of life, to make many real friends, and lose them in the course of nature. It is the fate of all authors or chroniclers to create imaginary friends, and lose them in the course of art. Nor is this the full extent of their misfortunes; for they are required to furnish an account of them besides.”

Men World Art Real Courses Loses Fate Accounts Prime Misfortunes Imaginary Real Friends Imaginary Friend Prime Of Life

Book:The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, Volume 2 (of 2) (Illustrations)

Source: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, Volume 2 (of 2) (Illustrations)

“A small knowledge of human nature will convince us, that, with far the greatest part of mankind, interest is the governing principle... Few men are capable of making a continual sacrifice of all views of private interest, or advantage, to the common good. It is vain to exclaim against the depravity of human nature on this account; the fact is so, the experience of every age and nation has proved it and we must in a great measure, change the constitution of man, before we can make it otherwise. No institution, not built on the presumptive truth of these maxims can succeed.”

“We have accounts of the deification of men in pagan mythology. But I do not remember any account of a god becoming a man, to help man. Whoever heard of Jupiter or Mars or Minerva coming down and attempting to bear the burdens of men? The gods were willing enough to receive the gifts of men, but Christianity is unique in the fact that our God became a man with human infirmity and emptied Himself of the glory of heaven, in order that He might take upon Himself the sins, diseases and weakness of our humanity.”

“Man is a great blunderer going about in the woods, and there is no other except the bear makes so much noise. ... The cunningest hunger is hunted in turn, and what he leaves of his kill is meat for some other. That is the economy of nature, but with it all there is not sufficient account taken of the works of man. There is no scavenger that eats tin cans, and no wild thing leaves a like disfigurement on the forest floor.”

Source: Essential Mary Austin: A Selection of Mary Austin's Best Writing

“Ordinary people regard a man of a certain force and flexibility of character as they do a lion; they look at him with a sort of wonder, perhaps they admire him; but they will on no account house with him.”

People Men Looks Character Certain House Force Wonder Ordinary Accounts Regard Admire Lions Flexibility Ordinary People

Author:Angela Merkel

“Though we may not desire to detect fraud, we must not, on that account, endeavor to be insensible of it, for, as cunning is a crime, so is duplicity a fault, and if men dread knaves, they also despise fools.”

Ifs Men May Desire Crime Fool Accounts Faults Endeavor Fraud Despise Dread Cunning Knaves Insensible Duplicity

Author:Norm MacDonald

“A man who owes a little can clear it off in a very little time, and, if he is a prudent man, will; whereas a man, who by long negligence, owes a great deal, despairs of ever being able to pay, and therefore never looks into his accounts at all.”

Ifs Men Looks Littles Long Able Deals Pay Clear Despair Accounts Debt Prudent Little Time Negligence

Book:Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son

Source: Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son

“Used with due abstinence, hope acts as a healthful tonic; intemperately indulged, as an enervating opiate. The visions of future triumph, which at first animate exertion, if dwelt upon too intently, will usurp the place of the stern reality; and, noble objects will be contemplated, not for their own inherent worth, but on account of the day-dreams they engender. Thus hope, aided by imagination, makes one man a hero, another a somnambulist, and a third a lunatic; while it renders them all enthusiasts.”

Ifs Men Firsts Dream Reality Used Hope Imagination Vision Objects Hero Thirds Accounts Dues Noble Triumph One Man Inherent Lunatic Exertion Abstinence Opiates

Author:James Fitzjames Stephen

“Every woman in choosing a lover takes more account of the way in which other women regard the man than of her own.”

Men Way Women He Man Lovers Accounts Regard

Book:The Cynic's Breviary: Maxims and Anecdotes from Nicolas de Chamfort

Source: The Cynic's Breviary: Maxims and Anecdotes from Nicolas de Chamfort

“There is no passion that so much transports men from their right judgments as anger. No one would demur upon punishing a judge with death who should condemn a criminal upon the account of his own choler; why then should fathers and pedants be any more allowed to whip and chastise children in their anger? It is then no longer correction bat revenge. Chastisement is instead of physic to children; and should we suffer a physician who should be animated against and enraged at his patient?”

Men Should Children Suffering Passion Father Judging Judgment Accounts Anger Patient Revenge Criminals Physicians Bats Animated Whips Transport Corrections Chastisement Pedants

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“We see young men who owe us a new world, so readily and lavishly they promise, but they never acquit the debt; they die young anddodge the account: or if they live, they lose themselves in the crowd.”

Ifs Men World Young Dies Loses Youth Promise Accounts Crowds Debt Young Man New World Die Young

Book:The Portable Emerson: New Edition

Source: The Portable Emerson: New Edition

“There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a mind to do it. If a man borrows a paltry sum of money, there must needs be bonds and securities, and every common civility is presently charged upon account. But he who has my time thinks he owes me nothing for it, though it be a debt that gratitude itself can never repay.”

Ifs Thinking Men Needs Mind Time Common Security Fool Gratitude Accounts Debt Our Time My Time Civility

Author:Seneca the Younger

“A man without a sense of purpose, even one whose bank accounts are stuffed with money, is always a small man.”

Men Purpose Accounts Bank Accounts Small Man

Book:Under the Dome: Part 1: A Novel

Source: Under the Dome: Part 1: A Novel

“It is not easy to fall into any absurdity, unless it be by the length of an account; wherein he may perhaps forget what went before. For all men by nature reason alike, and well, when they have good principles.”

Men Wells May Reason Fall Easy Forget Principles Accounts Length Absurdity

Book:The Moral and Political Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury: Never Before Collected Together : To which is Prefixed, the Author's Life, Extracted from that Said to be Written by Himself, ...

Source: The Moral and Political Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury: Never Before Collected Together : To which is Prefixed, the Author's Life, Extracted from that Said to be Written by Himself, ...

“A garden has this advantage, that it makes it indifferent where you live. A well-laid garden makes the face of the country of no account; let that be low or high, grand or mean, you have made a beautiful abode worthy of man.”

Men Wells Mean Made Country Beautiful Faces Lows Advantage Garden Accounts Worthy Indifferent Abode Where You Live

Book:The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations

Source: The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations

“Men die nightly in their beds, wringing the hands of ghostly confessors ... on account of the hideousness of mysteries which will not suffer themselves to be revealed.”

Men Hands Suffering Dies Mystery Dying Bed Accounts

Book:Tales of Mystery and Imagination

Source: Tales of Mystery and Imagination

“Around the world, we see the results of exploitation which destroys much without taking future generations into account. Protecting the world's forests; stemming desertification and erosion; avoiding the spread of toxic substances harmful to man, animals and plants; protecting the atmosphere; all these can be accomplished only through active and wise cooperation, without borders or political power plays.”

“After reading ... accounts ... of minor accidents of light, it is little wonder that the average man would far rather watch someone else fly and read of the narrow escapes from death when some pilot has had a forced landing or a blowout, than to ride himself. Even in the postwar days of now obsolete equipment, nearly all of the serious accidents were caused by inexperienced pilots who where then allowed to fly or attempt to fly-without license or restrictions about anything they could coax into the air.”

Men Littles Light Reading Wonder Watches Air Serious Accounts Safety Average Accidents Aviation Pilots Minors Equipment License Restriction Obsolete Landing Average Man Blowouts

Author:Charles Lindbergh

“We do want to drive out the beast in man, but we do not want on that account to emasculate him.”

Men Want Violence Accounts Beast

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“I am one of the proudest men ever born, but let me tell you frankly, it is not for myself, but on account of my ancestry. The more I have studied the past, the more I have looked back, more and more has this pride come to me, and it has given me the strength and courage of conviction, raised me up from the dust of the earth, and set me working out that great plan laid out by those great ancestors of ours.”

Men Motivational Earth Past Given Born Plans Pride Let Me Accounts Raised Conviction Work Out Dust Ancestor Ancestry

Book:Swami Vivekananda on Himself

Source: Swami Vivekananda on Himself

“Whoever sees in himself the traces of hatred toward any man on account of any kind of sin is completely foreign to the love of God. For love toward God does not at all tolerate hatred for man.”

Men Inspirational Kind Doe Christian Religious Sin Hatred Accounts God Love Orthodox Tolerate

Author:Maximus the Confessor

“Our world is guided by two principles and sources: God and the devil. All that is better in the world of men has its source in God, and all that is bad has the devil as its principle and source. In the final account, all good comes from God, and all evil from the devil.”

Men World Inspirational Two Christian Evil Religious Principles Source Devil Accounts Finals Orthodox Our World

Author:Justin Popovic

“Condemn no man for not thinking as you think. Let every one enjoy the full and free liberty of thinking for himself. Let every man use his own judgment, since every man must give an account of himself to God. Abhor every approach, in any kind or degree, to the spirit of persecution, if you cannot reason nor persuade a man into the truth, never attempt to force a man into it. If love will not compel him to come, leave him to God, the judge of all.”

Source: The Works of the Rev. John Wesley: The eighteenth, nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first numbers of his journal, particular of his death, review of his character, &c

“But the ground of a man's culture lies in his nature, not in his calling. His powers are to be unfolded on account of their inherent dignity, not their outward direction. He is to be educated, because he is a man, not because he is to make shoes, nail, or pins.”

Men Lying Culture Learning Teaching Calling Dignity Accounts Shoes Educated Inherent Nails Pins

Book:Self-Culture. An address introductory to the Franklin lectures, delivered at Boston. 1838

Source: Self-Culture. An address introductory to the Franklin lectures, delivered at Boston. 1838

“Men desire to have some share in the management of public affairs chiefly on account of the importance which it gives them.”

Men Giving Government Desire Share Accounts Importance Management Affair Public Affairs

Book:An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations

Source: An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations

“But I account the use that a man should seek of the publishing of his own writings before his death, to be but an untimely anticipation of that which is proper to follow a man, and not to go along with him.”

Men Should Writing Use Accounts Anticipation Publishing

Book:The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, Lord High Chancellor of England ...: With Several Additional Pieces, Never Before Printed in Any Edition of His Works. To which is Prefixed, a New Life of the Author

Source: The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, Lord High Chancellor of England ...: With Several Additional Pieces, Never Before Printed in Any Edition of His Works. To which is Prefixed, a New Life of the Author

“A man who makes a one-dollar profit on his expense account is dishonest. A man who loses five cents on one is a damned fool.”

Men Loses Money Five Fool Accounts Dollars Profit Expenses Cents

Author:Gene Fowler

“When you set about your composing, it may be necessary for your ease, and better distillation of wit, to put on your worst clothes, and the worse the better; for an author, like a limbeck, will yield the better for having a rag about him: besides that, I have observed a gardener cut the outward rind of a tree (which is the surtout of it) to make it bear well; and this is a natural account of the usual poverty of poets, and is an argument why wits, of all men living, ought to be ill clad.”