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Choice word and measured phrase above the reach Of ordinary men. — William Wordsworth
Great men are ordinary men with extra ordinary determination. — Abraham Lincoln
We need to remember that the first disciples were ordinary men called to an extraordinary mission. Their devotion to Jesus outweighed- by hair- their fears… — Max Lucado
Heroes are ordinary men and women who dare to see and meet the call of a possibility bigger than themselves. Breakthroughs are created by such… — Werner Erhard
Great men simplify great principles and make them easily intelligible to ordinary men — Tunku Abdul Rahman
When it wishes anything done which is really serious, it collects twelve of the ordinary men standing round. The same thing was done, if I… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
It is rather astonishing how little practical value scientific knowledge has for ordinary men, how dull and commonplace such of it as has value is,… — G. H. Hardy
All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Our civilization has decided that determining the guilt or innocence of men is a thing too important to be trusted to trained men. When it… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in. and the best of me is diligence. — William Shakespeare
Ordinary men live in fear all the time. Didn't you know that? We're afraid of the weather, we're afraid of powerful men, we're afraid of… — David Eddings
Ordinary men died, men of iron were taken prisoner: I only brought back with me men of bronze. — Napoleon Bonaparte
The tantalizing discomfort of perplexity is what inspires otherwise ordinary men and women to extraordinary feats of ingenuity and creativity; nothing quite focuses the mind… — Brian Greene
Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine. — Denis Diderot
There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with. — William Halsey
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. — Elbert Hubbard
Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much. — Walter Savage Landor
Ordinary men are given the authority of the priesthood. Worthiness and willingness - not experience, expertise, or education - are the qualifications for priesthood ordination. — David A. Bednar
To accept your country without betraying it, you must love it for that which shows what it might become. America -- this monument to the… — Cornel West
It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible… — Thomas Hardy
The holiness of love inspired ordinary men and women to act like angels. It lifted them on wings closer to God. — Nancy Holder
Poets are masters of us ordinary men, in knowledge of the mind, because they drink at streams which we have not yet made accessible to… — Sigmund Freud
Patience is a godly attribute that can heal souls, unlock treasures of knowledge and understanding, and transform ordinary men and women into saints and angels.… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
For most of human history, 'literature,' both fiction and poetry, has been narrated, not written — heard, not read. So fairy tales, folk tales, stories… — Angela Carter
There is a darkness in you. In all of us, probably. Beasts we keep chained. Ordinary men have to keep the chains strong, for if… — David Gemmell

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