My theory of self-made men is, then, simply this; that they are men of work. Whether or not such men have acquired… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Apart from selfish reasons, such as fear of punishments, fear of blame, of dishonour, etc, there remains only two motives that can… — African Spir Copy Share Image
Any young man, who makes dowry a condition to marriage, discredits his education and his country and dishonours womanhood. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
We cannot think that God frightens us with threatenings which He really does not mean to carry out, without doing Himself obvious… — Henry Parry Liddon Copy Share Image
Those who try to make room for sex as mere casual enjoyment pay the penalty: they become shallow. At any rate the… — G. E. M. Anscombe Copy Share Image
Men of warm imaginations and towering thoughts are apt to overlook the goods of fortune which are near them, for something that… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Man is nothing; he hath a free will to go to hell, but none to go to heaven, till God worketh in… — George Whitefield Copy Share Image
Yet living and dying, honour and dishonour, pain and pleasure, riches and poverty, and so forth are equally the lot of good… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
If there are atheists, who is to be blamed if not the mercenary tyrants of souls who, in revolting us against their… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
One must be oneself very little of a philosopher not to feel that the finest privilege of our reason consists in not… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
