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It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men

A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.

The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.

The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

In sum, thought and reflection have been rendered thoroughly pointless by the circumstances in which modern men and women live and act.

I want to see these bad, bad, bad, bad men come to grips with their humanity.

Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.

It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.

Henry Ellis

Men