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“Countless the various species of mankind, Countless the shades which sep'rate mind from mind; No general object of desire is known, Each has his will, and each pursues his own.”

Mind Desire Known Mankind Objects Species Rate Various Pursue Variety Shade Objects Of Desire

Author:William Gifford

“It is not the nature of avarice to be satisfied with anything but money. Every passion that acts upon mankind has a peculiar mode of operation. Many of them are temporary and fluctuating; they admit of cessation and variety. But avarice is a fixed, uniform passion.”

Passion Mankind Satisfied Variety Operations Fixed Temporary Peculiar Uniforms Avarice

Book:Common Sense, The Crisis, & Other Writings from the American Revolution: (Library of America Paperback Classic)

Source: Common Sense, The Crisis, & Other Writings from the American Revolution: (Library of America Paperback Classic)

“Adolescence is the time to enlarge the natural sentiments of pity, friendship, and generosity, the time to develop an understanding of human nature and the varieties of human character, the time to gain insight into the strengths and weaknesses of all men and to study the history of mankind.”

Source: Adolescence: The Farewell to Childhood

“The best way that a man could test his readiness to encounter the common variety of mankind would be to climb down a chimney into any house at random, and get on as well as possible with the people inside. And that is essentially what each one of us did on the day that he was born.”

People Men Way Wells Would Be House Born Common Mankind Tests Best Way Variety Encounters Climbs Readiness Chimneys

Book:Heretics

Source: Heretics

“The woman has circumvented man in a variety of ways in her unconsciously subtle ways, as the man has vainly and equally consciously struggled to thwart the woman in gaining ascendancy over him.”

Men Way Mankind He Man Variety Subtle Ascendancy

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“Some men covet knowledge out of a natural curiosity and inquisitive temper; some to entertain the mind with variety and delight; some for ornament and reputation; some for victory and contention; many for lucre and a livelihood; and but few for employing the Divine gift of reason to the use and benefit of mankind.”

Source: The Advancement of Learning