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Jean de La Bruyère

The slave has but one master; the ambitious man has as many as there are people useful to his fortune.

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Buddha, Gautama Buddha, or The Buddha, also Gotama Buddha, Siddhārtha Gautama Buddha and Buddha Śākyamuni NULL

All that we are is the result of what we have thought; it is founded on our thoughts, it is made up of our thoughts. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him, as the wheel follows the foot of he who draws the carriage.

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Edward William Bok

Man cannot live by bread alone. The making of money, the accumulation of material power, is not all there is to living. Life is something more than these, and the man who misses this truth misses the greatest joy and satisfaction that can come into his life - service for others.

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Elizabeth Browning, fully Elizabeth Barrett Browning

A poor man serv’d by thee, shall make thee rich.

Character | Man | Wisdom |

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Jean de La Bruyère

Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.

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R. H. Blyth, fully Reginald Horace Blyth

We walk, and our religion is shown (even in the dullest and most insensitive person) in how we walk. Or to put it more accurately, living in this world means choosing, choosing to walk, and the way we choose to walk is infallibly and perfectly expressed in the walk itself. Nothing can disguise it. The walk of an ordinary man and of an enlightened man are as different as that of a snake and a giraffe.

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Richard Maurice Bucke, often called Maurice Bucke

The Cosmos is not dead matter but a living Presence, the soul of man is immortal... the universe is so built and ordered that without any peradventure all things work together for the good of each and all... the foundation principle of the world is what we call love and that the happiness of every one is in the long run absolutely certain.

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G. K. Chesterton, fully Gilbert Keith Chesterton

If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.

Character | Man | Will | Understand |

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John Chrysostom, fully Saint John Chrysostom

Every man is the painter and the sculptor of his own life.

Character | Life | Life | Man |

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Jeremy Collier

By reading a man does, as it we, antedate his life, and make himself contemporary with past ages.

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Joseph Conrad, born Teodor Josef Konrad Korzeniowski

No man succeeds in everything he undertakes. In that sense we are all failures. The great point is not to fail in ordering and sustaining the effort of our life.

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Richard Cecil

Hypocrisy is folly. It is much easier, safer, and pleasanter to be the thing which a man aims to appear, than to keep up the appearance of what he is not.

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William Ellery Channing

Men are never very wise and select in the exercise of a new power.

Character | Men | Power | Wise |

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G. K. Chesterton, fully Gilbert Keith Chesterton

There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.

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