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William Gilmore Simms

Most men remember obligations, but not often to be grateful; the proud are made sour by the remembrance and the vain silent.

Character | Men |

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William A. Scully, fully Bishop William Aloysius Scully

Knowledge alone does not stop men from evil. The poor and the ignorant are not the greatest sinners. Man's mind may unfold, his intellect grow more keen, his understanding more profound, yet side by side with this may be a moral degeneration such as existed in pagan Greece and Rome.

Character | Evil | Knowledge | Men |

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George Savile, fully Sir George Savile, 1st Marquis of Halifax

Popularity is a crime from the moment it is sought; it is only a virtue when men have it whether they will or not.

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John Selden

We measure the excellency of other men by some excellency we conceive to be in ourselves.

Character | Men |

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William Shenstone

Some men are called sagacious, merely on account of their avarice; whereas a child can clench its fist the moment it is born.

Avarice | Character | Men | Child |

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Shimon HaTzaddik

For his entire life he was in the company of wise men and Of all the things beneficial to one’s body, silence is the best. [paraphrase]

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Samuel Smiles

It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failure.

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Lillian Smith, fully Lillian Eugenia Smith

Freedom is a dreadful thing unless it goes hand in hand with responsibility. Democracy among men is a specter except when the hearts of men are mature.

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Jean Charles Sismondi, fully Jean Charles Léonard de Sismondi

Whenever we cease to hate, to despite, and to persecute those who think differently from ourselves, whenever we look on them calmly, we find among them men of pure hearts and unbiased judgments, who, reasoning on the same data with ourselves, have arrived at different conclusion on the subject of the spiritual world.

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Samuel Smiles

Commonplace though it may appear, this doing of one’s duty embodies the highest ideal of life and character. There may be nothing heroic about it; but the common lot of men is not heroic.

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Samuel Smiles

Good character is human nature in its best form. It is moral order embodied in the individual. Men of character are not only the conscience of society, but in every well governed state they are its best motive power; for it is moral qualities which, in the main, rule the world.

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Richard Steele, fully Sir Richard Steele

These men (chronic fault-finders) should consider that it is their envy which deforms everything, and that the ugliness is not in the object, but in the eye.

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Robert Gordon Sproul

Progress is always the product of fresh thinking, and much of it thinking which to practical men bears the semblance of dreaming.

Character | Men | Progress | Thinking |

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Robert Louis Stevenson, fully Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson

To be rich in admiration and free from envy; to rejoice greatly in the good of others; to love with such generosity of heart that your love is still a dear possession in absence; these are the gifts of fortune which money cannot buy and without which money can buy nothing. He who has such a treasury of riches, being happy and valiant himself, in his own nature, will enjoy the universe as if it were his own estate; and help the man to whom he lends a hand to enjoy it with him.

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Jonathan Swift, pen names, M.B. Drapier, Lemuel Gulliver, Isaac Bickerstaff

A wise man should have money in his head, not in his heart.

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