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“Women who insist upon having the same options as men would do well to consider the option of being the strong, silent type”

Men Wells Strong Type Silent Equality

Book:The Fran Lebowitz Reader

Source: The Fran Lebowitz Reader

“Religion and nationalism, as well as any custom and any belief however absurd and degrading, if it only connects the individual with others, are refuges from what man most dreads: isolation.”

Ifs Men Wells Individual Belief Absurd Isolation Nationalism Customs Dread Refuge Degrading

Book:Escape from Freedom

Source: Escape from Freedom

“It is not enough merely to exist. It's not enough to say, "I'm earning enough to support my family. I do my work well. I'm a good father, husband, churchgoer." That's all very well. But you must do something more. Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. Even if it's a little thing, do something for those who need help, something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it. For remember, you don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.”

“If every man works at that for which nature fitted him, the cows will be well tended.”

Ifs Men Wells Every Man Cows

Author:Jean de La Fontaine

“Be a pattern to others, and then all will go well; for as a whole city is affected by the licentious passions and vices of great men, so it is likewise reformed by their moderation.”

Men Wells Whole Passion Cities Influence Patterns Vices Great Men Affected Moderation

Author:Thomas Carlyle

“Man always worships something; always he sees the Infinite shadowed forth in something finite; and indeed can and must so see it in any finite thing, once tempt him well to fix his eyes thereon.”

Men Wells Eye Worship Infinite His Eyes Finite

Book:Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished

Source: Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished

“Hope is a flatterer, but the most upright of all parasites; for she frequents the poor man's hut, as well as the palace of his superior.”

Men Wells Hope Poor Superiors Palaces Poor Man Parasites Huts Flatterer

Book:Essays on Men and Manners

Source: Essays on Men and Manners

“Painting embraces and contains within itself all the things which nature produces or which results from the fortuitous actions of men... he is but a poor master who makes only a single figure well.”

Men Wells Action Poor Results Figures Produce Painting Masters Embrace Fortuitous

Book:Notebooks

Source: Notebooks

“Yet I will look upon thy face again, My own romantic Bronx, and it will be A face more pleasant than the face of men. Thy waves are old companions, I shall see A well remembered form in each old tree And hear a voice long loved in thy wild minstrelsy.”

Men Wells Looks Long Faces Form Voice My Own Tree Rivers Wave Remembered Pleasant Look Up Companion Bronx Old Trees

Book:The Culprit Fay: And Other Poems

Source: The Culprit Fay: And Other Poems

“Would I describe a preacher, I would express him simple, grave, sincere; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste, And natural in gesture; much impress'd Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too; affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.”

Source: The Works of William Cowper: His Life, Letters, and Poems. Now First Completed by the Introduction of Cowper's Private Correspondence