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“The man who submits to violence is debased by his compliance; but when he submits to that right of authority which he acknowledges in a fellow creature, he rises in some measure above the person who give the command.”

Men Giving Persons Violence He Man Creatures Authority Fellows Command Acknowledge Submit Compliance

Book:Democracy in America

Source: Democracy in America

“Take gifts with a sigh: most men give to be paid.”

Men Giving Paid Sigh

Book:Songs, Legends and Ballads

Source: Songs, Legends and Ballads

“Give a man enough rope and he'll wrap himself around your little finger.”

Men Giving Littles Enough Fingers Gender Rope Wraps

Author:Diane Ackerman

“Any man will admit if need be that his sight is not good, or that he cannot swim or shoots badly with a rifle, but to touch upon his sense of humour is to give him mortal affront.”

Ifs Men Needs Giving Humour Sight Mortals Swim Rifles Affront

Book:Feast of Stephen

Source: Feast of Stephen

“Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.”

Men Way Giving Ability Ought

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)

“The worst men often give the best advice. Our deeds are sometimes better than our thoughts.”

Men Giving Sometimes Worst Advice Deeds Our Thoughts Best Advice

Book:Festus: a poem

Source: Festus: a poem

“Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.”

Men Giving Action Pleasure Refuse

Book:On Love

Source: On Love

“I want to paint men and women with that something of the external which the halo used to symbolize, and which we now seek to give by the actual radiance and vibrancy of our colorings.”

Men Want Giving Used Men And Women Paint Radiance Portraiture Halos Vibrancy

Author:Vincent Van Gogh

“Do you know what will soon be the ultimate in truth? - photography, once it begins to reproduce colors, and that won't be long in coming. And yet you want an intelligent man to sweat for months so as to give the illusion he can do something as well as an ingenious little machine can!”

Knows Men Want Giving Wells Littles Long Can Do Color Months Photography Illusion Machines Ultimate Intelligent Do You Know Sweat Ingenious Can Do Something Intelligent Man

Book:The writings of a savage

Source: The writings of a savage

“I never hated a man enough to give him diamonds back.”

Men Life Giving Enough Humor Funny Hate Women Marriage Hated Broken Heart Diamond Funny Relationship

Author:Zsa Zsa Gabor

“Let us consider what we call vicious luxury. No gratification, however sensual, can of itself be esteemed vicious. A gratification is only vicious when it engrosses all a man's expense, and leaves no ability for such acts of duty and generosity as are required by his situation and fortune. The same care and toil that raise a dish of peas at Christmas would give bread to a whole family during six months.”

Men Giving Whole Care Ability Situation Duty Months Six Raises Fortune Bread Luxury Sensual Generosity Expenses Dishes Toil Vicious Six Months Gratification Whole Family Peas

Book:Selected essays

Source: Selected essays

“The man who has honesty, integrity, the love of inquiry, the desire to see beyond, is ready to appreciate good art. He needs no one to give him an 'Art Education'; he is already qualified. He needs but to see pictures with his active mind, look into them for the things that belong to him, and he will find soon enough in himself an art connoisseur and an art lover of the first order.”

Source: The Art Spirit

“Take note that, before going any farther, I will give you the exact proportion of a man. Those of a woman I will disregard, for she does not have any set proportion.”

Men Giving Doe Notes Gender Proportion Disregard

Book:The Craftsman's Handbook

Source: The Craftsman's Handbook

“To commiserate is sometimes more than to give, for money is external to a man's self, but he who bestows compassion communicates his own soul.”

Men Giving Soul Self Sometimes Compassion Communication Communicate Sympathy

Book:Martyria: A Legend, Wherein are Contained Homilies, Conversations, and Incidents of the Reign of Edward the Sixth

Source: Martyria: A Legend, Wherein are Contained Homilies, Conversations, and Incidents of the Reign of Edward the Sixth

“I think God rarely gives to one man, or one set of men, more than one great moral victory to win.”

Thinking Men Giving Winning Moral Victory One Man Moral Victory

Book:Loving warriors: selected letters of Lucy Stone and Henry B. Blackwell, 1853 to 1893

Source: Loving warriors: selected letters of Lucy Stone and Henry B. Blackwell, 1853 to 1893

“Love rejoices in good wherever it finds it; envy is pained by good, and the sight of the happiness of others hurts the eyes and the heart of the envious man. Love wishes to give; envy would rather receive. Love creates; envy destroys. Love builds up; envy pulls down. Love helps those in need, comforts the afflicted, and strives to turn all that is evil into good; envy would turn the little happiness to be found in this world into evil, sorrow, and pain.”

Source: The Hidden Power of Kindness: A Practical Handbook for Souls who Dare to Transform the World, One Deed at a Time

“He who, having lost his parents or being abandoned, by them without ,just cause, gives himself to a ,man , is called a son self given.”

Men Giving Self Lost Given Causes Parent Son Abandoned

Author:Guru Nanak

“May liberal men abound with us! May our knowledge of the Vedas and our progeny increase! May faith not forsake us! May we have much to give to the needy.”

Men Giving May Increase Needy Forsake Vedas Progeny

Author:Guru Nanak

“A REAL man, the kind of man a woman wants to give her life to, is one who will respect her dignity, who will honor her like the valuable treasure she is. A REAL man will not attempt to rip her precious pearl from it's protective shell, or persuade her with charm to give away her treasure prematurely, but he will wait patiently until she willingly gives him the prize of her heart. A REAL man will cherish and care for that prize forever.”

Source: When God Writes Your Love Story (Expanded Edition): The Ultimate Guide to Guy/Girl Relationships

“Maybe now people will give a man credit where credit is deserved. Roy Jones was beaten by a better fighter period. I'm one of the best in the world.”

People Men World Giving Periods Credit Fighter Beaten Roy Jones

Author:Antonio Tarver

“This art of conservation is strength, and makes the masterpiece a masterpiece. Otherwise, the man who simply brought all the different colors obtainable, and squeezed them out upon the canvas to give it 'full force,' would be the greatest master, instead of being merely extravagant.”

Men Giving Art Different Would Be Force Color He Man Masters Canvas Conservation Masterpiece Being Me Extravagant Different Colors

Book:Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting

Source: Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting

“The man who holds that every human right is secondary to his profit must now give way to the advocate of human welfare.”

Men Way Giving Humans He Man Profit Welfare

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“Give a man a soccer ball, he plays for a moment. Teach a man to play soccer, he plays for a life time.”

Men Giving Play Moments Teach Balls Soccer Life Time Playing Soccer Soccer Ball

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“God does not... give people positions or jobs or... good conditions such as they desire; they must do that for themselves.. God does not build cities nor towns nor nations, nor homes, nor factories; men and people do that and all those who want must work for themselves and pray to God to give them strength to do it.”

People Men Want Giving Doe Home Jobs Desire Nations Cities Conditions Position Praying Towns Factories Godly Praying To God

Author:Marcus Garvey

“Baptism is the Sacrament of Faith. Now, dead faith does not suffice for salvation .. .Therefore, the Sacrament of Baptism cannot give salvation to a man whose will ... expels the form of faith.”

Men Giving Doe Form Salvation Sacraments Baptism

Author:Thomas Aquinas

“Baptism is not to be conferred on a man who is unwilling to give up his other sins, so neither should Baptism be given to one who is unwilling to renounce his unbelief. Nevertheless, each of them receives the Sacrament if it is conferred on him, although not unto salvation.”

Ifs Men Giving Should Given Sin Giving Up Salvation Nevertheless Sacraments Unwilling Baptism Renounce Unbelief

Author:Thomas Aquinas

“Even as he would be guilty of falsehood who would, in the name of another person, proffer things that are not committed to him, so too does a man incur the guilt of falsehood who, on the part of the Church, gives worship to God contrary to the manner established by the Church or divine authority, and according to ecclesiastical custom.”

Men Giving Persons Doe Would Be Names Church Divine He Man Authority Worship Guilt Committed Contrary Guilty Customs Catholicism Falsehood

Book:Summa Theologica.ed

Source: Summa Theologica.ed

“No man who is not willing to bear arms and to fight for his rights can give a good reason why he should be entitled to the privilege of living in a free community.”

Men Giving Should Reason Fighting Community Rights Willing Arms Bears Privilege Reason Why Entitled

Book:Fear God and Take Your Own Part

Source: Fear God and Take Your Own Part

“God would not give us the same talent if what were right for men were wrong for women.”

Ifs Men Giving Talent

Book:A Country Doctor

Source: A Country Doctor

“Why should not Africa give to the world its Black Rockefeller, Rothschild and Henry Ford? Now is the opportunity. Now is the chance for every Negro to make every effort toward a commercial, industrial standard that will make us comparable with the successful business men of other races.”

Men World Giving Should Opportunity Black Chance Effort Race Successful Standards Successful Business Business Man Rothschild

Book:The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey, Or, Africa for the Africans

Source: The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey, Or, Africa for the Africans

“Contrary to what you may assume, I am not a pessimist but an indifferentist- that is, I don't make the mistake of thinking that the... cosmos... gives a damn one way or the the other about the especial wants and ultimate welfare of mosquitoes, rats, lice, dogs, men, horses, pterodactyls, trees, fungi, dodos, or other forms of biological energy.”

Thinking Men Way Want Giving May Form Energy Mistake Tree Dog Ultimate Horse Assuming Contrary One Way Welfare Damn Cosmos Rats Pessimist Mosquitoes Fungi Lice

Author:H. P. Lovecraft

“A designer who is not also a couturier, who hasn't learned the most refined mysteries of physically creating his models, is like a sculptor who gives his drawings to another man, an artisan, to accomplish.”

Men Giving Mystery Creating Models Accomplish Drawing Designer Another Man Refined Sculptors Artisans

Book:Catalog of the Exhibition Held at the Costume

Source: Catalog of the Exhibition Held at the Costume

“Time and times are but cogwheels, unmatched, grinding on oblivious to one another. Occasionally - oh, very rarely! - the cogs fit; the pieces of the plot snap together momentarily and give men faint glimpses beyond the veil of this everyday blindness we call reality.”

Men Giving Reality Together Pieces Fit Everyday Plot Blindness Glimpse Veils Snaps Oblivious Cogs

Book:THE CTHULHU MYTHOS – Complete Collection: The Children of the Night, The Black Stone, The Thing on the Roof, The Challenge From Beyond & The Fire of Asshurbanipal: The Gateway into the Ancient Dimension of Terror Inhabited with Unspeakable Creatures, a Pantheon of Alien Extra-Dimensional Deities and Mythical Horrors Which Predate Humanity

Source: THE CTHULHU MYTHOS – Complete Collection: The Children of the Night, The Black Stone, The Thing on the Roof, The Challenge From Beyond & The Fire of Asshurbanipal: The Gateway into the Ancient Dimension of Terror Inhabited with Unspeakable Creatures, a Pantheon of Alien Extra-Dimensional Deities and Mythical Horrors Which Predate Humanity

“When a rules man gives you a ruling, that’s it. Amen.”

Men Giving Ruling Amen

Author:Gary Player

“So popular is the naval service the only embarrassment is that men volunteer so rapidly we have to work overtime to give them hardy, adequate housing and proper training.”

Men Giving Training Volunteer Navy Adequate Housing Embarrassment Hardy Naval Proper Training

Author:Josephus Daniels

“Artur Rubinstein, the famous pianist, was once asked the secret of his success-was it dedication, ability, discipline, hard work? Mr. Rubinstein smiled as he remarked, "It's hard to say, but one thing I do know: if you love life, life will love you back!" What a wonderful insight! That philosophy explains how a man in his eighties can continue to be so creative. For life is simply filled with exciting blessings for everybody. They're ours if we give enough of ourselves to life!”

Source: The joy of living: inspiring and practical writings ...

“Do not feed children on a maudlin sentimentalism or dogmatic religion; give them nature. Let their souls drink in all that is pure and sweet. Rear them, if possible, amid pleasant surroundings ... Let nature teach them the lessons of good and proper living, combined with an abundance of well-balanced nourishment. Those children will grow to be the best men and women. Put the best in them by contact with the best outside. They will absorb it as a plant absorbs the sunshine and the dew.”

“I wish that more and more adventurous young men would give up the gun in favour of the camera.”

Men Giving Young Wish Giving Up Gun Cameras Young Man Favour Vegetarianism Adventurous

Author:Jawaharlal Nehru

“I don't care how poor and inefficient a little country is - they like to run their own business. I know men that would -make my wife a better husband than I am but, darn it, I'm not going to give her to 'em.”

Knows Men Giving Littles Country Inspiration Care Running Poor Wife Husband Don't Care My Wife I Don't Care Ems Know Me Own Business

Author:Will Rogers

“You never want to give a man a present when he's feeling good. You want to do it when he's down.”

Men Want Giving Feelings Feel Good

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“Most men in a brazen prison live, Where, in the sun's hot eye, With heads bent o'er their toil, they languidly Their lives to some unmeaning taskwork give, Dreaming of nought beyond their prison-wall.”

Men Giving Dream Eye Work Sun Wall Hot Prison Bent Toil Brazen Prison Walls

Book:Dover Beach and Other Poems

Source: Dover Beach and Other Poems

“Calm soul of all things! make it mine To feel, amid the city's jar, That there abides a peace of thine, Man did not make, and cannot mar! The will to neither strive nor cry, The power to feel what others give! Calm, calm me more! nor let me die Before I have begun to live.”

Men Giving Feels Soul Dies Peace Cities Cry Mines All Things Let Me Strive Calm Mars Jars

Author:Matthew Arnold

“Asking Europe to disarm is like asking a man in Chicago to give up his life insurance.”

Men Giving Giving Up Europe Asking Chicago

Book:Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Coolidge years, 1926-1929

Source: Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Coolidge years, 1926-1929

“In their confusion and delusion, men hate the womb that gives them birth. Not all men, certainly , but enough men to run the world.”

Men World Giving Enough Running Hate Women Birth Enlightenment Confusion Delusion Womb

Author:Frederick Lenz

“What is the chief end of preaching? I like to think it is this: It is to give men and women a sense of God and His presence.”

Thinking Men Giving Ends Men And Women Chiefs Preaching

Book:Preaching and Preachers

Source: Preaching and Preachers

“Christ did not come to civilize. He came to save. Civilization is not the solution; it does not destroy the works of the devil. All civilization aims at world improvement, at the gradual elimination of the curse; it is a process of evolution. It is like a man who is suffering from a terrible disease, and the physician who comes to help him gives him a salve to apply. He treats the skin symptoms but the source of the disease he never considers and never touches. Such is a boasted and progressive civilization. It is a delusion.”

“No man will ever be a big executive who feels that he must, either openly or under cover, follow up every order he gives and see that it is done-nor will he ever develop a capable assistant.”

Men Giving Feels Done Bigs Order Capable Executives Assistants Follow Up

Author:John Lee Mahin

“How can you give something to someone who has everything? If you think men are tough to shop for at Christmas, try God. God has everything except one thing, friends. God doesn't have friends.”

Ifs Thinking Men Giving Trying God One Thing Tough Shops

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Gold, n.: A soft malleable metal relatively scarce in distribution. It is mined deep in the earth by poor men who then give it to rich men who immediately bury it back in the earth in great prisons, although gold hasn't done anything to them.”

Men Giving Done Earth Poor Rich Humorous Gold Prison Metals Distribution Scarce Rich Man Poor Man

Author:Mike Harding

“Let's cease thinking of our accomplishments, our wants. Let's try to figure out the other man's good points. Then forget flattery. Give honest, sincere appreciation. Be hearty in your approbation and lavish in your praise, and people will cherish your words and treasure them and repeat them over a lifetime - repeat them years after you have forgotten them.”