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“A man is worked upon by what he works on. He may carve out his circumstances, but his circumstances will carve him out as well.”
Quote by -Frederick Douglass
“I have often wished myself a beast. I preferred the condition of the meanest reptile to my own. Any thing, no matter what, to get rid of thinking! It was this everlasting thinking of my condition that tormented me. There was no getting rid of it. It was pressed upon me by every object within sight or hearing, animate or inanimate.”
Quote by -Frederick Douglass
“There is not a man beneath the canopy of heaven, that does not know that slavery is wrong for him.”
Quote by -Frederick Douglass
“Men talk of the Negro problem. There is no Negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have honesty enough, loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough to live up to their Constitution”
Quote by -Frederick Douglass
“Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.”
Quote by -Frederick Douglass
“Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.”
Quote by -Heraclitus
“History is a child building a sandcastle by the sea, and that child is the whole majesty of man's power in the world.”
Quote by -Heraclitus
“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river, and it's not the same man.”
Quote by -Heraclitus
“Men forget where the way leads and what they meet with every day seems strange to them.We should not act and speak like men asleep.”
Quote by -Heraclitus
No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.
Quote by -Heraclitus
Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.
Quote by -Heraclitus
Man is constantly growing, and when he is bound by a set pattern of ideas, or “way” of doing things, that’s when he stops growing.
Quote by -Bruce Lee
“There’s this idea that somehow you’ve got to keep changing things, and as often as possible. Maybe if people just decided not to buy anything for a while, they’d get a chance to think about what they wanted; what they really liked.”
Quote by -Vivienne Westwood
“No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.”
Quote by -Plato
“Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away... A man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons him.”
Quote by -Plato
“Man...is a tame or civilized animal; never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized; but if he be insufficiently or ill- educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures.”
Quote by -Plato
“man cannot control the current of events. he can only float with them and steer”
Quote by -Otto Von Bismarck
"Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women."
Quote by -Henry James
A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
Quote by -Freddie Mercury
The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
Quote by -Henry James
Every governmental institution has been a standing testimony to the harmonic destiny of society, a standing proof that the life of man is destined for peace and amity, instead of disorder and contention.
Quote by -Henry James
The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
Quote by -Henry James
You seemed to me to be soaring far up in the blue - to be sailing in the bright light, over the heads of men. Suddenly some one tosses up a faded rosebud - a missile that should never have reached you - and down you drop to the ground.
Quote by -Henry James
God's creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself, indeed, in every finite form, but compromised by none.
Quote by -Henry James
The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
Quote by -Henry James
Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.
Quote by -Henry James
Write about this man who, drop by drop, squeezes the slave's blood out of himself until he wakes one day to find the blood of a real human being--not a slave's--coursing through his veins.
Quote by -Anton Chekhov
SIGURD. Man's will can do this and that; but fate rules in the deeds that shape our lives—so has it gone with us twain.
Quote by -Henrik Ibsen
“Man is an imitative animal. This quality is the germ of all education in him. From his cradle to his grave he is learning to do what he sees others do.”
Quote by -Thomas Jefferson