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Source: A Supplementary Volume to the Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Containing Pieces of Poetry, Not Inserted in Warburton's and Warton's Editions : and a Collection of Letters, Now First Published

“Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.”

Men Seems Virtue Birth Capable Bounds Vices Determined Wicked

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“I'm not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself - then they get to say 'See, you did it yourself.'”

Men Enough Seeing Capable Delight Convinced Cruelty Chains You Choose

Author:Alice Walker

“Men are often capable of greater things than they perform - They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.”

Men World Greater Greatness Future Capable Draws Bills Credit Greater Things

Book:The Works of Horatio Walpole, Earl of Orford ...

Source: The Works of Horatio Walpole, Earl of Orford ...

“A man's presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you. By contrast, a woman's presence... defines what can and cannot be done to her.”

Men Done Capable Contrast

Author:John Berger

“He said that man’s heart was the only bad heart in the animal kingdom; that man was the only animal capable of feeling malice, envy, vindictiveness, revengefulness, hatred, selfishness, the only animal that loves drunkenness, almost the only animal that could endure personal uncleanliness and a filthy habitation, the sole animal in whom was fully developed the base instinct called patriotism, the sole animal that robs, persecutes, oppresses and kills members of his own tribe, the sole animal that steals and enslaves the members of any tribe.”

Men Heart Said Feelings Animal Members Capable Hatred Instinct Endure Envy Stealing Kingdoms Selfishness Sole Tribes Malice Drunkenness Filthy Animal Kingdom Vindictiveness Bad Heart

Author:Mark Twain

“Time has its revenges, but revenge seems so often sour. Wouldn’t we all do better not trying to understand, accepting the fact that no human being will ever understand another, not a wife with a husband, nor a parent a child? Perhaps that’s why men have invented God – a being capable of understanding.”

Men Life Trying Humans Children Facts Seems Parent Understanding Human Beings Accepting Wife Husband Capable Revenge Sour

Author:Graham Greene

“Civilization, in fact, grows more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary. Wars are no longer waged by the will of superior men, capable of judging dispassionately and intelligently the causes behind them and the effects flowing out of them. The are now begun by first throwing a mob into a panic; they are ended only when it has spent its ferine fury.”

“It has been frequently remarked, that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country to decide, by their conduct and example, the important question, whether societies of men are really capable or not, of establishing good government from reflection and choice, or whether they are forever destined to depend, for their political constitutions, on accident and force.”

Source: The Works of Alexander Hamilton: Comprising His Most Important Official Reports: An Improved Edition of the Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in 1788; and Pacificus, on the Proclamation of Neutrality, Written in 1793 ...

“A man so painfully in love is capable of self-torture beyond belief.”

Men Self Belief Love Is Capable Torture

Book:East of Eden

Source: East of Eden

“Man is a machine which reacts blindly to external forces and, this being so, he has no will, and very little control of himself, if any at all. What we have to study, therefore, is not psychology-for that applies only to a developed man-but mechanics. Man is not only a machine but a machine which works very much below the standard it would be capable of maintaining if it were working properly.”

Ifs Men Littles Would Be Force Study Psychology Capable Standards Machines Mechanic Maintaining External Forces

Author:P.D. Ouspensky

“When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.”

Men Believe Capable Believe In God

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever, in religion, in philosophy, in politics, or in anything else, where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent. If I could not go to heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all.”