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“Because in this world, there is a line: on one side are the men who cannot get things done, and on the other side are the men who can. And not one in a hundred will cross that line. Will you?”

Men World Done Sides Lines This World He Man Hundred Crosses Things Done

Book:Last Man in Tower

Source: Last Man in Tower

“What odds does it make to the man who lives within Nature's bounds, whether he ploughs a hundred acres or a thousand?”

Men Doe He Man Thousand Hundred Bounds Odds Acres

Author:Horace

“No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams.”

Men Reading He Man Amount Hundred Satisfied Misfortunes Epigrams

Author:Martial

“The man possessed of a dollar, feels himself to be not merely one hundred cents richer, but also one hundred cents better, than the man who is penniless; so on through all the gradations of earthly possessions - the estimate of our own moral and political importance swelling always in a ratio exactly proportionate to the growth of our purse.”

Men Feels Political Growth Poor Moral Rich He Man Hundred Importance Dollars Possession Possessed Cents Purses Rich And Poor Ratios Swelling Earthly Possessions

Author:Frances Wright

“Sulky labor, and the labor of sorrow are little worth: if you could only shed tranquility over the conscience and infuse joy into the soul, you would do more to make the man a thorough worker than if you could lend him the force of Hercules, or the hundred arms of Briareus.”

Ifs Men Littles Soul Joy Force He Man Arms Sorrow Hundred Conscience Labor Workers Shed Tranquility Thorough Sulky

Author:William Wilberforce

“Ask any school-boy up to the age of fifteen where he would spend his holidays. Not one in five hundred will say, "In the streets of London," if you give him the option of green fields and running waters. It is, then, a fair presumption that there must be something of the child still in the character of the men or the women whom the country charms in maturer as in dawning life.”

“The man who is rich in fancy thinks that his wagon is already built; poor fool, he does not know that there are a hundred timbers to a wagon.”

Thinking Knows Men Doe Poor Rich He Man Fool Hundred Built Fancy Wagons Timber

Author:Hesiod

“The terrible, tragic fallacy of the last hundred years has been to think that all man's troubles are due to his environment, and that to change the man you have nothing to do but change his environment. That is a tragic fallacy. It overlooks the fact that it was in Paradise that man fell.”

Thinking Men Years Has Beens Facts Lasts Change Environment Trouble He Man Terrible Hundred Dues Lawyer Paradise Tragic Misconception Fallacy

Book:Studies in the Sermon on the Mount

Source: Studies in the Sermon on the Mount

“As an artist, I identify with Sandro Botticelli. We know him as the man who painted Primavera and The Birth Of Venus. The goddesses and ancient subjects he chose represented virtues which were meant to inspire people. Then he went through a dark phase when he was listening to the sermons of Savonarola, who preached against the worldly pleasures of the Renaissance. But Botticelli's works live on, inspiring people to this day. Five hundred years after his death, he still has thousands of fans!”

“Two hundred years ago, we were all busy farming and we all had a role to play. The home was a unit of production. We made food and all the things we needed, we took care of our kids and were connected to purpose in our evolution. When the Industrial Revolution came along, it took away a lot of the work the men had done.”

Men Years Made Two Done Play Home Care Kids Purpose Roles He Man Revolution Evolution Needed Hundred Years Ago Busy Productions Connected Units Farming Industrial Revolution

Author:Peter Buffett