Crime Quote by John Dryden

He who truly believes that which prompts him to an action has looked upon the action to lust after it, he has committed it…

— William Kingdon Clifford

“ I fancy he is attempting to purge himself of — all manner of things. I beg him to take heart, for our Lord…

— Ahdaf Soueif

“Sometimes even if he has to do it alone, and his conduct seems to be crazy, a man must set an example, and so…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

There is a gentle, but perfectly irresistible coercion in a habit of reading well directed, over the whole tenor of a man's character and…

— John Herschel

For this is the mark of a wise and upright man, not to rail against the gods in misfortune.

— Aeschylus

“The man of ambition thinks to find his good in the operations of others; the man of pleasure in his own sensations; but the…

— marcus aurelius

“A man act according to his thoughts.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

No man pursues what he has at hand. No man recognizes the need of pursuit until that which he desires has escaped him.

— Agnes Repplier

"It is part of the poet's work to show each man what he sees but does not know he sees."

— Edith Sitwell

Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.

— William Cowper

“A learned man who doesn’t restrain his passions is like a blind man holding a torch, he guides others but not himself.”

— Shaykh Sa di

But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own…

— John Updike