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The prosperity of a country depends, not on the abundance of its revenues, nor on the strength of its fortifications, nor on the beauty of its public buildings; but it consists in the number of its cultivated citizens, in its men of education, enlightenment and character.

― Martin Luther

It takes three or four women to get each man into, through, and out of the world.

― Louisa May Alcott

Louisa May Alcott

Problems always appear big when incompetent men are working on them.

― William Feather

William Feather

Deliver me from all evildoers that talk nothing but sickness and failure. Grant me the companionship of men who think success and men who work for it. Loan me associates who cheerfully face the problems of a day and try hard to overcome them. Relieve me of all cynics and critics. Give me good health and the strength to be of real service to the world, and I'll get all that's good for me, and will what's left to those who want it.

― William Feather

William Feather

The wise man seeks little joys, knowing that life is long and that his quota of great joys is distinctly limited.

― William Feather

William Feather

Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.

― William James

Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.

― William Penn

Governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them, and as governments are made and moved by men, so by them they are ruined too. Wherefore governments rather depend upon men, than men upon governments. Let men be good, and the government cannot be bad; if it be ill, they will cure it. But if men be bad, let the government be never so good, they will endeavour to warp and spoil it to their turn.

― William Penn

Nothing shows our weakness more than to be so sharp-sighted at spying other men's faults, and so purblind about our own.

― William Penn

If you protect a man from folly, you will soon have a nation of fools.

― William Penn

The country life is to be preferred, for there we see the works of God; but in cities little else but the works of men. And the one makes a better subject for contemplation than the other.

― William Penn

My prison shall be my grave before I will budge a jot; for I owe my conscience to no mortal man.

― William Penn

People are more afraid of the laws of Man than of God, because their punishment seems to be nearest.

― William Penn

True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.

― William Penn

When you cut into the present the future leaks out.

― William S. Burroughs

William S. Burroughs

How long does it take man to realize that he cannot want what he wants? You have to live in hell to see heaven.

― William S. Burroughs

William S. Burroughs

We have lived through the epoch of suppression of the masses; we are living in an epoch of suppression of the individual in the name of the masses; tomorrow will bring the liberation of the individual - in the name of man.

― Yevgeny Zamyatin

Yevgeny Zamyatin

A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn't be worth reading.

― Yevgeny Zamyatin

Yevgeny Zamyatin

The only means of ridding man of crime is ridding him of freedom.

― Yevgeny Zamyatin

Yevgeny Zamyatin

The most agonising thing is to drop doubt into a man about his being a reality, three-dimensional - and not some other kind of reality.

― Yevgeny Zamyatin

Yevgeny Zamyatin

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