Greatest man Quote by Robert E. Howard

“Men are but men, and the greatest men are they who soonest learn the simpler things.”

Robert E. Howard

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Don't you think that as a people, Americans have less poetry, real poetry, in their souls than any other nations?

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I became a writer in spite of my environments.

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Over the souls of men spread the condor wings of colossal monsters and all manner of evil things prey upon the heart and soul and body of Man. Yet it may be in some far day the shadows shall fade and the Prince of Darkness be chained forever in his hell. And till then mankind can but stand up stoutly…

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“There was no life in the Abyss, save that which was incorporated in me," it tolled. "Nor was there light, nor motion, nor any…

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“That's the way with civilized men. When they can't explain something by their half-baked science, they refuse to believe it.”

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I live, I burn with life, I love, I slay, & am content.

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Coming, as I do, from mountain folk on one side and sea followers on the other, there are few old songs of the hills…

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“A true fanatic, his promptings were reasons enough for his actions.”

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I have put off the past like a worn-out cloak.

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“Again the governor knelt, for part of his wisdom was the knowledge that a woman in such an emotional tempest is as perilous as…

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“When you allow the elevation of a man, one can be sure that you'll profit by his advancement. I've earned everything I've won, with…

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I never saw a man fight as Conan fought. He put his back to the courtyard wall, and before they overpowered him the dead…

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“Man is not a 'fixed and limited animal whose nature is absolutely constant'. He changed drastically when he developed 'divided consciousness' to cope with complexities of civilisation, and has been changing steadily ever since. His greatest problem, the problem that has caused most of his agonies and miseries, has been his attempt to compensate for the narrowing of cinsciousness and…

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The greatest manager has a knack for making ballplayers think they are better than they think they are.

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Many of the greatest men have owed their success to industry rather than to cleverness.

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Judging people is one of the greatest man sin. Remember, God made us, and it means you were also judging God and yourself too.

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“The Devil answer'd: bray a fool in a morter with wheat, yet shall not his folly be beaten out of him; if Jesus Christ is the greatest man, you ought to love him in the greatest degree; now hear how he has given his sanction to the law of ten commandments: did he not mock at the sabbath, and so…

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“Upon learning that Washington intended to reject the mantle of emperor, no less an authority than George III allegedly observed, “If he does that, he will be the greatest man in the world.” True to his word, on December 22, 1783, Washington surrendered his commission to the Congress, then meeting in Annapolis: “Having now finished the work assigned me,” he…

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John Paul II was one of the greatest men of the last century. Perhaps the greatest.

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The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution; who resists to sorest temptation from within and without; who bears…

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“I protest against any absolute conclusion, any prejudice derived from Mrs. Cadwallader's contempt for a neighboring clergyman's alleged greatness of soul, or Sir James Chettam's poor opinion of his rival's legs,—from Mr. Brooke's failure to elicit a companion's ideas, or from Celia's criticism of a middle-aged scholar's personal appearance. I am not sure that the greatest man of his age,…

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Britain in the 19th century was two things simultaneously; the hub of the largest empire on earth and the greatest manufacturing and trading nation…

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My step-dad is probably the greatest man I've ever known. The best advice I've ever been given was when he told me to enjoy…

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“Greatness has its beauties, but only in retrospect and in the imagination": thus wrote General Bonaparte to General Moreau in 1800. His observation helps to explain why the world, only a few years after sighing with relief at its delivery from the ogre, began to worship him as the greatest man of modern times. Napoleon had barely left the scene…

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