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- Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love on earth: the Blessed Sacrament....There…
- The most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men.…
- In doubt a man of worth will trust to his own wisdom.
- Speak no evil of the Lady Galadriel!" said Aragorn sternly. "You know not what you say. There is in her and in this land, no…
- My political opinions lean more and more to anarchy. The most improper job of any man, even saints, is bossing other men. There is only…
- I have claimed that Escape is one of the main functions of fairy-stories, and since I do not disapprove of them, it is plain that…
- We have come from God, and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain error, will also reflect a splintered fragment of the true…
- A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.
- Eomer said, 'How is a man to judge what to do in such times?' As he has ever judged,' said Aragorn. 'Good and evil have…
- Do we walk in legends or on the green earth in the daylight?' A man may do both,' said Aragorn. 'For not we but those…
- The only just literary critic," he concluded, "is Christ, who admires more than does any man the gifts He Himself has bestowed.
- I wished to be loved by another,' [Éowyn] answered. 'But I desire no man's pity.
- But no living man am I! You look upon a woman. Éowyn I am, Éomund's daughter. You stand between me and my lord and kin.…
- Hinder me? Thou fool. No living man may hinder me!" “But no living man am I!
- Supernatural is a dangerous and difficult word in any of its senses, looser or stricter. But to fairies it can hardly be applied, unless super…
- Few other griefs amid the ill chances of this world have more bitterness and shame for a man's heart than to behold the love of…
- To the sea, to the sea! The white gulls are crying, The wind is blowing, and the white foam is flying. West, west away, the…
- Man, Sub-creator, the refracted light through whom is splintered from a single White to many hues, and endlessly combined in living shapes that move from…
- My friend, you had horses, and deed of arms, and the free fields; but she, being born in the body of a maid, had a…
- A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship.
- The romantic chivalric tradition takes, or at any rate has in the past taken, the young man's eye off women as they are, as companions…
- Human stories are practically always about one thing, really, aren't they? Death. The inevitability of death. . . . . . (quoting an obituary) 'There…
- We are truth-speakers, we men of Gondor. We boast seldom, and then perform, or die in the attempt. "Not if I found it on the…
- The proper study of Man is anything but Man; and the most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at…
- The wise speak only of what they know, Grima son of Galmod. A witless worm have you become. Therefore be silent, and keep your forked…
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- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. — Aristotle
- Hope is the dream of a waking man. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle