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Men Quotes by Harry Emerson Fosdick
- The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.
- Every great scientist becomes a great scientist because of the inner self-abnegation with which he stands before truth, saying: "Not my will, but thine, be…
- Every year the inventions of science weave more inextricably the web that binds man to man, group to group, nation to nation.
- No man is the whole of himself; his friends are the rest of him.
- It is going to be a long, hard haul; it will require patience, courage, faith that hangs on when hope fails, if we are to…
- He is a poor son whose sonship does not make him desire to serve all men's mothers.
- A supremely religious man or woman is one who believes deeply and consistently in the veracity of his highest experiences. He has his hours in…
- Every human life involves an unfathomable mystery, for man is the riddle of the universe, and the riddle of man in his endowment with personal…
- Men will work hard for money. They will work harder for other men. But men will work hardest of all when they are dedicated to…
- No man need stay the way he is.
- The man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
- The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.
- He is a poor patriot whose patriotism does not enable him to understand how all men everywhere feel about their altars and their hearthstones, their…
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