The cruelest foe is a masked benefactor. The wars which make history so dreary have served the cause of truth and virtue. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Genius has oftenest been the pariah of his time, the unhoused god whom none cared for, unnamed till they whom he first… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
Don't say anything about this to anybody. Any one would say that I am trying to play the good-natured philosopher. I am… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
As far as our noblest hardwood forests are concerned, the animals, especially squirrels and jays, are our greatest and almost only benefactors.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
My benefactor said that when a man embarks on the paths of sorcery he becomes aware, in a gradual manner, that ordinary… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
“The political benefactors are considered 'religious' heroes. They have statues and a place in the temple, and sacrifices are made in their… — Bart D. Ehrman Copy Share Image
Technology and production can be great benefactors of man, but they are mindless instruments, and if undirected they careen along with a… — Charles A. Reich Copy Share Image
There should be relentless exposure of and attack upon every evil practice, whether in politics, in business, or in social life. I… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
In our desire to have government become our benefactor and sustainer, we have allowed it to become our taskmaster and overlord. As… — Chuck Baldwin Copy Share Image
Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. The person sitting in the shade now… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Judges of elegance and taste consider themselves as benefactors to the human race, whilst they are really only the interrupters of their… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
Therefore, we know about God that He loves and shows pity on His creatures, and also that He is the source of… — Dorotheus of Gaza Copy Share Image
It is of the nobility of man's soul that he is insatiable: for he hath a benefactor so prone to give, that… — Thomas Traherne Copy Share Image
A person is not a democrat thanks to his ignorance of literature and the arts, nor an elitist because he or she… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
On the Avenue in front of the White House were several hundred colored people, mostly women and children, weeping and wailing their… — Gideon Welles Copy Share Image
Crooked Warden, I will fear no darkness for the night is yours," muttered Locke, pointing the first two fingers of his left… — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
We are the benefactors of too much sacrifice and blood, sweat and tears to allow petty differences and trivial discrepancies to continue… — T.I Copy Share Image
Suspicious princes often promote the last of mankind, from a vain persuasion that those who have no dependence except on their favor… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
So long as mankind shall continue to lavish more praise upon its destroyers than upon its benefactors war shall remain the chief… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Wicked ones are like fire. Even if pu on hea, they burn only. They do not leave unhurt even their well -… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
My benefactor used to say the seeds are the 'sober head' -- the only part that could fortify the heart of man. — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
grateful people are a bore and become obsequious, which causes their benefactors to doubt the wisdom of their choice. — Silvia Tennenbaum Copy Share Image
The Buddhist, who thanks no man, who says "Do not flatter your benefactors," but who, in his conviction that every good deed… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Those authors into whose hands nature has placed a magic wand, with which they no sooner touch us than we forget the… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
The sense that the meaning of the universe had evaporated was what seemed to escape those who welcomed Darwin as a benefactor… — R. J. Hollingdale Copy Share Image
Christ willed to suffer and be despised and do you dare complain of the same? Christ had adversaries and backbiters; and do… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
The die is set and Malcolm will not escape for the foolish talk he spoke against his benefactor, such a man, is… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
There are some who affect a want of affectation, and flatter themselves that they are above flattery; they are proud of being… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Most people who have been done a favor consider it an opportunity to show their incorruptibility rather than their gratitude. This is… — Arthur Schnitzler Copy Share Image
The first law that ever God gave to man was a law of pure obedience; it was a commandment naked and simple,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I haven't seen so much tippy-toeing around since the last time I went to the ballet. When members of the arts community… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
This idea [standardized time zones] was first advanced and fought for by Sandford Fleming of Canada and Charles F. Dowd of the… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I don't feel any vulgar gratitude to you[for helping me]. I almost feel as if You ought to be grateful to ME,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
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