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Men Quotes by Thomas Boston
- What an honourable thing is it to be fishers of men! How great an honour shouldst thou esteem it, to be a catcher of souls!…
- Good education is not regeneration. Education may chain up men's lusts, but cannot change their hearts.
- The regenerate man's desires are rectified; they are set on God himself, and the things above... Before, he saw no beauty in Christ, for which…
- If a man be new-born, he will desire the sincere milk of the word.
- Has God decreed all things that come to pass? Then there is nothing that falls out by chance, nor are we to ascribe what we…
- Affliction doth not rise out of the dust or come to men by chance; but it is the Lord that sends it, and we should…
- As the corruption of our nature shews the absolute necessity of regeneration, so the absolute necessity of regeneration plainly proves the corruption of our nature;…
- Believing, repenting, and the like, are the product of the new nature; and can never be produced by the old corrupt nature... as the child…
- The natural man cannot but resist the Lord's offering to help him; yet that resistance is infallibly overcome in the elect, by converting grace.
- The believer is sensible of his infirmities, for it is supposed that he is wrestling under them. He sees, he feels, that he is not…
- Sinners in their natural state lie dead, lifeless, and moveless; they can no more believe in Christ, nor repent, than a dead man can speak…
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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
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — 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
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- 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
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle