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Letter "M" » Men
«Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.»
«Many of our troubles in the world today arise from an over-emphasis of the masculine, and a neglect of the feminine. This modern world is an aggressive, hyperactive, competitive, masculine world, and it needs the woman's touch as never before.»
Author: Eva Burrows
| About:
Men,
Needs,
Strength,
Trouble,
Women,
World
| Keywords:
aggressive, arise, competitive, emphasis, feminine, hyperactive, masculine, modern world, neglect, This Modern World
«Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.»
Author: Arthur Helps
(Historian, Novelist)
| About:
Men
| Keywords:
ape, ceased, first book, vanquish, vanquished, vanquishes
«Look now how mortals are blaming the gods, for they say that evils come from us, but in fact they themselves have woes beyond their share because of their own follies»
Author: Homer
| About:
God,
Men
| Keywords:
blaming, follies, Gods Themselves, mortals, The Gods Themselves, woes
«Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain»
Author: John Calvin
(Statesman, Theologian)
| About:
Belief,
Mankind,
Men,
Mind,
Superstition
| Keywords:
forsake, idol, idolatries, idolatry
«Male superiority in former days was easily demonstrated, because if a woman questioned her husband's he could beat her. From superiority in this respect others were thought to follow. Men were more reasonable than women, more inventive, less swayed b»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Men,
Superiority,
Women
| Keywords:
Her husband, inventive, questioned, swayed
«Many men are mere warehouses full of merchandise--the head, the heart, are stuffed with goods. . . . There are apartments in their souls which were once tenanted by taste, and love, and joy, and worship, but they are all deserted now, and the rooms a»
Author: Henry Ward Beecher
| About:
Men
| Keywords:
deserted, merchandise, stuffed, tenant, tenanted, tenants, warehouse, warehouses
«Many brave men lived before Agamemnon, but all are weighed down in unending night, unwept and unknown, because they lacked a sacred bard»
«Man can only endure a certain degree of unhappiness; what is beyond that either annihilates him or passes by him and leaves him apathetic»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Men,
Unhappiness
| Keywords:
annihilate, annihilates, apathetic, degree, passes, unhappiness
«Man's life's a vapor, and full of woes; he cuts a caper, and down he goes»
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