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“The great majority of women are more intelligent, better educated, and far more moral than multitudes of men whose right to vote no man questions.”

Men Women Moral Democracy Vote Intelligent Majority Educated Multitudes Right To Vote

Author:Lucy Stone

“If a man is respectful he will not be treated with insolence. If he is tolerant he will win the multitude. If he is trustworthy in word his fellow men will entrust him with responsibility. If he is quick he will achieve results.”

“I would not exchange the laughter of my heart for the fortunes of the multitudes; nor would I be content with converting my tears, invited by my agonized self, into calm. It is my fervent hope that my whole life on this earth will ever be tears and laughter. Tears that purify my heart and reveal to me the secret of life and its mystery, Laughter that brings me closer to my fellow men; Tears with which I join the broken-hearted, Laugher that symbolizes joy over my very existence.”

“If there be any among those common objects of hatred I do contemn and laugh at, it is that great enemy of reason, virtue, and religion, the multitude; that numerous piece of monstrosity, which, taken asunder, seem men, and the reasonable creatures of God, but, confused together, make but one great beast, and a monstrosity more prodigious than Hydra.”

Ifs Men Reason Seems Together Common Enemy Laughing Virtue Taken Pieces Objects Creatures Hatred Confusion Beast Confused Reasonable Multitudes Confusing Prodigious Monstrosity Hydra

Author:Thomas Browne

“The multitude which does not reduce itself to unity is confusion.”

Doe Unity Confusion Multitudes Confusing

Author:Blaise Pascal

“Men, to act with vigour and effect, must have time to mature measures, and judgment and experience, as to the best method of applying them. They must not be hurried on to their conclusions by the passions, or the fears of the multitude. They must deliberate, as well as resolve.”

Men Wells Government Passion Effects Judgment Method Conclusion Resolve Mature Multitudes Deliberate

Book:Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States: With a Preliminary Review of the Constitutional History of the Colonies and States, Before the Adoption of the Constitution

Source: Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States: With a Preliminary Review of the Constitutional History of the Colonies and States, Before the Adoption of the Constitution

“By such innovations are languages enriched, when the words are adopted by the multitude, and naturalized by custom.”

Language Innovation Customs Multitudes Adopted

Book:The History of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha

Source: The History of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha

“Walk away from your own preoccupations . . . and see the perishing multitudes.”

Walks Missions Missionary Multitudes Motto Preoccupation Missions And Prayer Perishing Mission Trip

Author:K.P. Yohannan

“[Regarding legislative assemblies,] the number ought at most to be kept within a certain limit, in order to avoid the confusion and intemperance of a multitude. In all very numerous assemblies, of whatever characters composed, passion never fails to wrest the scepter from reason. Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob.”

Source: The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States

“The multitude of the sick shall not make us deny the existence of health.”

Existence Sick Mental Health Deny Multitudes

Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I know people think that acting is not quite the occupation of grown-ups, but it is actually the ultimate learning process: You get a multitude of experiences, all for the price of one life.”

People Thinking Knows Process Acting Ultimate Occupation Multitudes Learning Process

Author:Natalie Dormer

“Happiness is a road seldom traveled by the multitudes. If you find it, please, don't take it for granted. If you Happen to stray from it, don't let negative obstacles overcome you. Anger and rage only detour you from your final objectives. The future holds nothing but opportunity, and good things happen to good people I promise”

People Ifs Happens Opportunity Please Promise Negative Overcoming Good Things Finals Obstacles Rage Things Happen Objectives Granted Good People Multitudes Traveled I Promise Detours

Author:Jeff Hardy

“I run 5 miles every night. It’s where I go to digest my day, hash out the multitude of information that’s been poured into me in the last wild six months or so, and to try and condense it down to some sort of cohesive strategy to live my life by.”

Trying Running Lasts Night Information Months Six Strategy Miles Every Night Multitudes Living My Life Six Months Hash

Author:Ryan Holiday

“The idea of polytheism is grounded in the view that reality (divine or otherwise) is multiple and diverse... Polytheism has allowed a multitude of distinct groups to exist more or less in harmony, despite great divergence in beliefs and practices.”

Ideas Reality Belief Views Practice Groups Divine Harmony Despite Diverse Multiple Multitudes Grounded Divergence Polytheism

Book:Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, and Other Pagans in America

Source: Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, and Other Pagans in America

“Weep not for me. Rather let your tears flow for the sorrows of the multitude. My work is done. Like a ripe fruit I admit the gathering. Death has no terrors for it is a wise law of nature. I am ready whenever the summons may come.”

May Done Law Wise Tears Ready Sorrow Flow Fruit Terror Multitudes Gathering Laws Of Nature Ripe Ripe Fruit

Author:Lucretia Mott

“Happier of happy though I be, like them I cannot take possession of the sky, mount with a thoughtless impulse, and wheel there, one of a mighty multitude whose way and motion is a harmony and dance magnificent.”

Way Sky Harmony Possession Impulse Wheels Magnificent Multitudes

Book:The Excursion and The Recluse

Source: The Excursion and The Recluse

“The mission of the law is not to oppress persons and plunder them of their property, even though the law may be acting in a philanthropic spirit. Its purpose is to protect persons and property.... If you exceed this proper limit -- if you attempt to make the law religious, fraternal, equalizing, philanthropic, industrial, or artistic -- you will then be lost in uncharted territory, in vagueness and uncertainty, in a forced utopia or, even worse, in a multitude of utopias, each striving to seize the law and impose it on you.”

“What is the right of the huntsman to the forest of a thousand miles over which he has accidentally ranged in quest of prey? Shall the fields and vallies, which a beneficent God has formed to teem with the life of innumerable multitudes, be condemned to everlasting barrenness?”

History Fields Thousand Miles Forests Quests Multitudes Everlasting Prey Thousand Miles

Author:John Quincy Adams

“If the charter of your liberties entails death and despair for untold multitudes, then it is nothing but a license for slaughter.”

Ifs Liberty Despair Multitudes License Slaughter Charter

Author:Amitav Ghosh

“It is difficult to estimate the misery inflicted upon thousands of persons, and the absolute pecuniary penalty imposed upon multitudes of intellectual workers by the loss of their time, destroyed by organ-grinders and other similar nuisances.”

Persons Difficult Loss Intellectual Absolutes Misery Workers Destroyed Organs Penalties Multitudes Nuisance Grinder

Book:A Chapter on Street Nuisances. [Extracted from

Source: A Chapter on Street Nuisances. [Extracted from

“Looking out at that crowd, I imagined those who had not yet arrived, minority students who, in years to come, would make this multitude of faces, the view from where I now stood, a little more various. If they could have heard me, I would have confided in them: As you discover what strength you can draw from your community in this world from which it stands apart, look outward as well as inward. Build bridges instead of walls.”

Ifs World Years Wells Looks Littles Faces Community Views Heard This World Students Wall Draws Crowds Various Bridges Minorities Inward Multitudes

Book:My Beloved World

Source: My Beloved World

“He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.”

People Office Libertarian Substance Officers Multitudes Declaration Of Independence Swarms

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“If by the people you understand the multitude, the hoi polloi, 'tis no matter what they think; they are sometimes in the right, sometimes in the wrong; their judgment is a mere lottery.”

People Ifs Thinking Sometimes Matter Understanding Judgment No Matter What Mere Multitudes Lottery

Author:John Dryden

“Multitudes of people who expect to go to Heaven will go to a Hell of torment. Thousands of "good" people, "moral" people, church members, even church workers - yes, and, alas, even prophets, priests and preachers - will find themselves lost when they expected to be saved, condemned when they expected approval, cast out of Heaven when they expected to be received into eternal bliss. That is the explicit meaning of the words of our Lord... (see: Matt 7:21-23.]”

Source: Religious But Lost

“The multitude of fools is a protection to the wise.”

Wise Fool Mass Protection Multitudes

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“In the case of a creative mind, it seems to me, the intellect has withdrawn its watchers from the gates, and the ideas rush in pell-mell and only then does it review and inspect the multitudes.”

Mind Doe Ideas Seems Cases Creative Intellect Gates Reviews Multitudes Rationality Watchers Creative Mind

Author:Friedrich Schiller

“I think my soul never was in such an agony before. I felt no restraint, for the treasures of divine grace were opened to me. I wrestled for absent friends, for the ingathering of souls, for multitudes of poor souls, and for many that I thought were the children of God, in many distant places. I was in such an agony, for half an hour before sunset, till near dark, that I was all over wet with sweat: but yet is seemed to me that I had wasted away the day, and had done nothing. Oh!, my dear Savior did sweat blood for poor souls!”

Source: Memoirs of the Rev. David Brainerd: Missionary to the Indians on the Borders of New-York, New-Jersey, and Pennsylvania: Chiefly Taken from His Own Diary

“Wherever the bishop shall appear, let the multitude of also be, just as wherever Jesus Christ is, there is the catholic [i.e., universal] church. It is not lawful either to baptize or to celebrate a love feast without the bishop, but whatever he approves of, that is also pleasing to God.”

Jesus Christ Church Jesus Christ Universal Catholic Celebrate Multitudes Bishops Baptism

Author:Ignatius of Antioch

“The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.”

Soul Eye Vision Divine Philosophical Endure Multitudes Human Soul

Author:Plato

“Wherever the bishop shall appear, there let the multitude also be; even as, wherever Jesus Christ is, there is the Catholic Church.”

Jesus Christ Church Jesus Christ Catholic Saint Catholicism Multitudes Catholic Church Bishops Catholic Saint Deacons

Author:Ignatius of Antioch

“It is my fondest desire to bust a host of caps into multitudes of fleshy personages.”

Desire Host Multitudes Caps

Author:Bill Willingham