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Men Quotes by Edwin Hubbel Chapin
- At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and…
- Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the…
- The best men are not those who have waited for chances but who have taken them; besieged the chance; conquered the chance; and made chance…
- Whatever touches the nerves of motive, whatever shifts man's moral position, is mightier than steam, or calorie, or lightening.
- It is the penalty of fame that a man must ever keep rising. "Get a reputation, and then go to bed," is the absurdest of…
- Man is concentric: you have to take fold after fold off of him before you get to the centre of his personality. You must get…
- Neutral men are the devil's allies.
- There is but a slight difference between the man who may be said to know nothing and him who thinks he knows everything.
- Do not ask if a man has been through college; ask if a college has been through him; if he is a walking university.
- Physically, man is but an atom in space, and a pulsation in time. Spiritually, the entire outward universe receives significance from him, and the scope…
- Tomorrow may never come to us. We do not live in tomorrow. We cannot find it in any of our title-deeds. The man who owns…
- In the history of man it has been very generally the case that when evils have grown insufferable they have touched the point of cure.
- This is the essential evil of vice: it debases a man.
- Death is a great revealer of what is in a man, and in its solemn shadow appear the naked lineaments of the soul.
- No language can express the power, and beauty, and heroism, and majesty of a mother's love. It shrinks not where man cowers, and grows stronger…
- A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there…
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- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
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- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
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