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Letter "M" » Mankind
«A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.»
Author: Abraham J. Heschel
| About:
Compassion,
God,
Love,
Mankind,
Religion
| Keywords:
at one time, defiance, harm, holds, one time, religious person, suffers
«A strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, and the other forward; one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day.»
Author: Anna Mary Robertson Moses
| About:
Hope,
Mankind,
Memory
| Keywords:
backward, backward and forward, look backward, painter, paints, paint a picture, pictures, recorded
«A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.»
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr.
| About:
Libraries,
Mankind
| Keywords:
furniture, lumber, lumbering, lumbers, lumber room, put away, stocked, stocked with
«A man should never put on his best trousers when he goes out to battle for freedom and truth»
«A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.»
Author: Isaac Newton
(Mathematician, Physicist)
| About:
Falsehood,
Imagination,
Mankind,
Truth,
Understanding
| Keywords:
apprehension, apprehensions
«Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard»
Author: Will Durant
(Historian, Writer)
| About:
Bankers and banks,
History,
Mankind,
Money,
Wisdom
| Keywords:
hoard, inflationary
«A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other»
Author: Charles Dickens
| About:
Mankind,
Mystery,
Wonder
| Keywords:
constituted, every other, reflect
«Better to be a dog in times of peace than a human being in times of trouble»
«A man of great common sense and good taste is a man without originality or moral courage.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Common sense,
Mankind,
Originality
| Keywords:
Good taste, originality, sense of taste
«A man ought to carry himself in the world as an orange tree would if it could walk up and down in the garden, swinging perfume from every little censer it holds up to the air»
Author: Henry Ward Beecher
| About:
Mankind
| Keywords:
an orange, censer, censers, In the Garden, orange, oranges, orange tree, perfume, swinging, The Garden, up and down, walk-up
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