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Mankind
«Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury»
«No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which one is true.»
«No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.»
«No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on the proper occasions.»
Author: Henry Ward Beecher
| About:
Mankind,
Sanity
| Keywords:
insane, occasioned, occasions, on occasion, proper, sane
«No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.»
Author: Hunter S. Thompson
(Author, Journalist)
| About:
Foolishness,
Mankind
| Keywords:
counsel, err
«Not one or two, Subhuti, not one or two, but all the beings - men, women, animals, birds, trees, rocks. All the beings in the world. One should create such a determination that `I will lead all of them into nirvana'.»
«Nowadays the world is becoming increasingly materialistic, and mankind is reaching toward the very zenith of external progress, driven by an insatiable desire for power and vast possessions. Yet by this vain striving for perfection in a world where e»
Author: Dalai Lama
| About:
Mankind,
Perfection,
Possessions,
Power,
Progress,
World
| Keywords:
driven, e'en, external, increasingly, insatiable, materialistic, nowadays, possessions, reaching, striving, vast, zenith
«No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a part of a continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were . . .»
Author: John Donne
| About:
Country,
Friends,
Mankind,
Nations
| Keywords:
an island, clod, Continent, Europe, island, promontory, the continent, Thine, washed, wash away
«Neither a borrower nor a lender be.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Mankind
| Keywords:
borrower, Borrowers, lender, lenders