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Mankind

«Let our posterity know that we their ancestors, uncultured and unlearned, amid all trials and temptations, were men of integrity.»
«I was part of that strange race of people aptly described as spending their lives doing things they detest, to make money they don't want, to buy things they don't need, to impress people they dislike»
«Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.»
«Let us not say, every man is the architect of his own fortune; but let us say, every man is the architect of his own character.»
Author: George D. Boardman | About: Fortune, Mankind | Keywords: architect
«Let each man think himself an act of God, His mind a thought, his life a breath of God; And let each try, by great thoughts and good deeds, To show the most of Heaven he hath in him»
Author: Philip James Bailey (Poet) | About: God, Mankind | Keywords: act of God
«Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality. No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him. By his love he is enabled to see the essential traits and featur»
«I weigh the man, not his title; 'tis not the king's stamp can make the metal better»
Author: William Wycherley | About: Mankind | Keywords: metal, stamp, title, weigh
«Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds»
«Man - a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.»
Author: Mark Twain (Humorist, Lecturer, Writer) | About: Mankind | Keywords: The Week
«Lord, what fools these mortals be.»
Author: William Shakespeare (Dramatist, Playwright, Poet) | About: Mankind | Keywords: mortals