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“God hath given to mankind a common library, His creatures; to every man a proper book, himself being an abridgment of all others. If thou read with understanding, it will make thee a great master of philosophy, and a true servant of the divine Author: if thou but barely read, it will make thee thine own wise man and the Author's fool.”

Ifs Men Book Philosophy Given Understanding Common Wise Mankind Divine Masters Fool Creatures Library Every Man Thee Servant

Book:Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles

Source: Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles

“Let every man in mankind's frailtyConsider his last day; and let nonePresume on his good fortune until he findLife, at his death, a memory without pain.”

Men Pain Lasts Memories Mankind Fortune Every Man Good Fortune Last Day Without Pain

Book:The Oedipus Cycle: An English Version

Source: The Oedipus Cycle: An English Version

“The laboring people should unite and should protect themselves against all idlers. You can divide mankind into two classes: the laborers and the idlers, the supporters and the supported, the honest and the dishonest. Every man is dishonest who lives upon the unpaid labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne. All laborers should be brothers.”

People Ifs Men Should Two Matter Class Mankind Honest Brother Protect Labor Every Man Divides Thrones Supporter Laborers Idlers

Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“The truth, indeed, is something that mankind, for some mysterious reason, instinctively dislikes. Every man who tries to tell it is unpopular, and even when, by the sheer strength of his case, he prevails, he is put down as a scoundrel.”

Men Trying Reason Cases Mankind Every Man Mysterious Dislike Sheer Scoundrels

Author:H. L. Mencken

“The mistake that men make is that they do not believe in theater. Otherwise, they would know that every man is allowed to play thecelestial tragedies and to become god. All he has to do is harden his heart.”

Knows Men Believe Heart Play Mistake Mankind Tragedy Theater Every Man

Author:Albert Camus

“Every man beholds his human condition with a degree of melancholy. As a ship aground is battered by the waves, so man, imprisonedin mortal life, lies open to the mercy of coming events.”

Men Humans Lying Fate Conditions Mankind Events Degrees Mercy Wave Every Man Ships Mortals Melancholy Human Condition Battered

Book:Nature and Other Essays

Source: Nature and Other Essays

“Every man has an equal right to the necessaries of life even as birds and beasts have.”

Men Mankind Equal Bird Every Man Beast

Book:All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections

Source: All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections

“It is comparing apples and oranges to refer to the love that the Savior expressed for all mankind, for every person, for every man and woman and child, with the doctrine related to marriage.”

Men Children Persons Mankind Men And Women Every Man Doctrine Compare Related Apples Savior Orange Apples And Oranges

Author:Lance B. Wickman

“No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee.”