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Wilhelm von Humboldt has 43 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events…
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Freedom is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exercise of dominion, is a single, yet…
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Government, religion, property, books, are nothing but the scaffolding to build men. Earth holds up to her master no fruit like the…
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It is usually more important how a man meets his fate than what it is.
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How a person masters his or her fate is more important than what that fate is.
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War seems to be one of the most salutary phenomena for the culture of human nature; and it is not without regret…
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If it were possible to make an accurate calculation of the evils which police regulations occasion, and of those which they prevent,…
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Language makes infinite use of finite media.
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Absolutely nothing is so important for a nation's culture as its language.
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Man is more disposed to domination than freedom; and a structure of dominion not only gladdens the eye of the master who…
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If it were not somewhat fanciful to suppose that every human excellence is presented, as it were, in one kind of being,…
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Possession, it is true, crowns exertion with rest; but it is only in the illusions of fancy that it has power to…
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It is usually more important how a man meets his fate than what it is.
— Wilhelm von Humboldt
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One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem on others.
— Juvenal
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When a man meets his make, society begins.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Every man meets his Waterloo at last.
— Wendell Phillips
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When a man meets catastrophe on the road, he looks in his purse, but a woman looks in her mirror.
— Margaret Turnbull
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Like driftwood spares which meet and pass Upon the boundless ocean-plain, So on the sea of life, alas! Man nears man, meets,…
— Matthew Arnold
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When man meets an obstacle he can't destroy, he destroys himself.
— Ryszard Kapuscinski
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The glory of God is the living man, but the life of man is the vision of God', says St. Irenaeus, getting…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it; but if he…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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The way to procure insults is to submit to them. A man meets with no more respect than he exacts.
— William Hazlitt
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When a man meets a woman who seems too perfect, too sweet, or too agreeable, he tends to become bored very quickly.
— Sherry Argov
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Someone once said, when a man meets his fate, he will leave her because thinking there is better woman out there, when…
— Soulmate
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