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“Through the influence of real art, aided by science, guided by religion... peaceful co-operation of man is now obtained by external means - by law courts, police, charitable institutions, factory inspections... It should be obtained by man's free and joyous activity.”

Men Should Mean Art Real Law Influence Activity Authority Police Institutions Court Peaceful Operations Factories Joyous Charitable Inspection Law Courts

Author:Leo Tolstoy

“In our age the common religious perception of men is the consciousness of the brotherhood of man - we know that the well-being of man lies in the union with his fellow men. True science should indicate the various methods of applying this consciousness to life. Art should transform this perception into feeling.”

Knows Men Should Wells Art Feelings Age Lying Religious Common Consciousness Perception Method Fellows Unions Various Well Being Brotherhood Fellow Man Lying Men Brotherhood Of Man

Book:What is Art?:

Source: What is Art?:

“Proved right should be capable of being vindicated by right means as against the rude i.e. sanguinary means. Man may and should shed his own blood for establishing what he considers to be his right. He may not shed the blood of his opponent who disputes his 'right'.”

Men Should May Mean Blood Capable Opponents Shed Rude Disputes Vindicated Mean Man

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“Commemoration of Gilbert of Sempringham, Founder of the Gilbertine Order, 1189 Some there are who presume so far on their wits that they think themselves capable of measuring the whole nature of things by their intellect, in that they esteem all things true which they see, and false which they see not. Accordingly, in order that man's mind might be freed from this presumption, and seek the truth humbly, it was necessary that certain things far surpassing his intellect should be proposed to man by God.”

Thinking Men Should Mind Whole Might Certain Order Capable All Things Intellect Wit Esteem Founders Measuring Presumption Surpassing Commemoration

Author:Thomas Aquinas

“The masterpiece should appear as the flower to the painter - perfect in its bud as in its bloom - with no reason to explain its presence - no mission to fulfill - a joy to the artist, a delusion to the philanthropist - a puzzle to the botanist - an accident of sentiment and alliteration to the literary man.”

Men Should Reason Joy Artist Perfect Flower Masters Missions Accidents Painter Delusion No Reason Sentiments Puzzles Masterpiece Bud Philanthropist Alliteration

Book:The Gentle Art of Making Enemies

Source: The Gentle Art of Making Enemies

“No one should therefore fear that he cannot accomplish what others have accomplished, for, men are born, live, and die in quite the same way they always have.”

Men Way Should Dies Born Accomplish Accomplished

Author:Niccolo Machiavelli

“The foreground in a picture is always unattractive... Art demands that the interest of the canvas should be placed in the far distance, where lies take refuge, those dreams which blossom out of fact and are man's only love.”

Men Should Art Facts Dream Lying Interest Demand Distance Deception Refuge Canvas Only Love Unattractive Foreground Far Distance

Author:Louis-Ferdinand Celine

“All good men and women should be on their guard to avoid guilt, and even the suspicion of it.”

Men Should Men And Women Guilt Good Man Suspicion

Author:Plautus

“Women speak at an earlier age, more easily, and more agreeably than men; they are accused also of speaking more; this is as it should be, and I willingly change the reproach into a eulogy.”

Men Should Age Speak Accused Reproach Eulogy

Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Could we know by what strange circumstances a man's genius became prepared for practical success, we should discover that the most serviceable items in his education were never entered in the bills which his father paid for.”

Knows Men Should Father Education Strange Genius Circumstances Paid Bills Prepared Practicals Items

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“God chooses that men should be tried, but let a man beware of tempting his neighbor.”

Men Should Neighbor Testing Tempting

Book:The Miracles of Our Lord

Source: The Miracles of Our Lord

“Then know, that I have little wealth to lose. A man I am, crossed with adversity; My riches are these poor habiliments, Of which if you should here disfurnish me, You take the sum and substance that I have.”

Ifs Knows Men Should Littles Loses Wealth Poor Adversity Riches Substance

Book:The Complete Works of William Shakspeare

Source: The Complete Works of William Shakspeare

“Ever note, Lucilius, When love begins to sicken and decay It useth an enforced ceremony. There are no tricks in plain and simple faith; But hollow men, like horses hot at hand, Make gallant show and promise of their mettle; But when they should endure the bloody spur, They fall their crests, and like deceitful jades Sink in the trial.”

Source: Making Sense of Julius Caesar! a Students Guide to Shakespeare's Play (Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling)

“Men so noble, However faulty, yet should find respect For what they have been: 'tis a cruelty To load a falling man.”

Men Should Has Beens Fall Noble Cruelty Load

Book:The plays and poems of William Shakspeare

Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare

“What should a man do but be merry? For look you how cheerfully my mother looks, and my father died within's two hours.”

Men Should Looks Two Mother Father Hours Died Merry Father Died My Father Died

Book:Hamlet: Revised Edition

Source: Hamlet: Revised Edition

“Great men should drink with harness on their throats.”

Men Should Drink Great Men Throat Temperance Harness

Book:Timon of Athens

Source: Timon of Athens

“Should a writer single out and point his raillery at particular persons, or satirize the miserable, he might be sure of pleasing a great part of his readers, but must be a very ill man if he could please himself.”

Ifs Men Should Persons Might Particular Reader Please Ill Miserable Satire

Author:Joseph Addison

“Only when a republic's life is in danger should a man uphold his government when it is wrong. There is no other time.”

Men Should Government Life Is Danger Republic

Book:Mark Twain's Fables of Man

Source: Mark Twain's Fables of Man

“Lastly no woman should marry a teetotaller, or a man who does not smoke. It is not for nothing that this "ignoble tobagie" as Michelet calls it, spreads all over the world.”

Men World Should Doe Spread Smoke Matrimony Ignoble

Author:Robert Louis Stevenson

“A man should stop his ears against paralyzing terror and run the race that is set before him with a single mind.”

Men Should Mind Running Race Ears Terror

Book:Virginibus Puerisque

Source: Virginibus Puerisque

“No wise man ever thought that a traitor should be trusted.”

Men Should Wise Trust Trusted Wise Man Once Said Traitor Treason Treachery Renegades No Trust Turncoats

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“It is better a man should be abused than forgotten.”

Men Should Abuse Forgotten

Book:Johnsoniana; or supplement to Boswell; being Anecdotes and sayings of Dr. Johnson, etc

Source: Johnsoniana; or supplement to Boswell; being Anecdotes and sayings of Dr. Johnson, etc

“A man should be careful never to tell tales of himself to his own disadvantage. People may be amused at the time, but they will be remembered, and brought out against him upon some subsequent occasion.”

People Men Should May Honesty Careful Tales Occasions Remembered Be Careful Disadvantages Amused

Author:Samuel Johnson

“You should often amuse yourself when you take a walk for recreation, in watching and taking note of the attitudes and actions of men as they talk and dispute, or laugh or come to blows with one another... noting these down with rapid strokes, in a little pocket-book which you ought always to carry with you.”

Men Should Littles Book Action Walks Attitude Laughing Ought Notes Blow Pockets Strokes Amusement Disputes Rapids Recreation

Author:Leonardo da Vinci

“The purpose of life is living. Men and women should get the most they can out of their lives.”

Men Life Should Life Is Purpose Men And Women Purpose Of Life

Author:Clarence Darrow

“He that negotiates between God and man, As God's ambassador, the grand concerns Of judgment and of mercy, should beware Of lightness in his speech.”

Men Should Speech Judgment Concern Mercy Preaching Ambassadors Lightness

Book:The complete poetical works of William Cowper, with life and critical notice of his writings

Source: The complete poetical works of William Cowper, with life and critical notice of his writings

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