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Men Quotes by William Ernest Henley
- Men may scoff, and men may pray, But they pay Every pleasure with a pain.
- Were I so tall as to reach the pole or grasp the ocean at a span, I must be measured by my soul. The mind…
- Into the winter's gray delight, Into the summer's golden dream, Holy and high and impartial, Death, the mother of Life, Mingles all men for ever.
- Shakespeare and Rembrandt have in common the faculty of quickening speculation and compelling the minds of men to combat and discussion.
- Men there have been who have done the essayist's part so well as to have earned an immortality in the doing; but we have had…
- There are two men in Tolstoy. He is a mystic and he is also a realist. He is addicted to the practice of a pietism…
- O, it's die we must, but it's live we can, And the marvel of earth and sun Is all for the joy of woman and…
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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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- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle