A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child.


Knights of Pythagoras

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A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child.
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
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The measure of a man is what he does with power.
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I just want silence... nothing less... nothing more.
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Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
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A child plays so as an old man he can be wise
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Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be.
JEFFREY FRY
A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
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As far as groupies, I never saw any of them.
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A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another's.
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A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another's
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Man is a make-believe animal -- he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.
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Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.
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Nothing excites a man in life as when his child calls him daddy.
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As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.
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I wouldn't trust any man as far as you can throw a piano.
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The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
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Fuck you and them... I don't like this rules!
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Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
DAVID CHAMBLESS
Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
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As far as I'm concerned, I want to remain the mean little man I always was.
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As far as expectations go, you can never work for expectations. You have to work against them.
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I'm not funny. Never have been and, as far as I can tell, I never will be.
DAVID DOBKIN
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When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.
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As a young child, I was never a crier. I never cried to get my way, or even when I was in pain.
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A great man even when dead,his name will continue to elicit greatness for generations to come.
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The light of a great man shines for generations to come.
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Who is a great man? A great man is a person whom people are dying to write books about.
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Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.
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Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.
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Too often, a man lives as if he will never die.
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When I was a child I spake as a child.
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Gloomy as night he stands.
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Lord Byron is only great as a poet; as soon as he reflects he is a child.
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Depression, as far as I'm concerned, is just a waste of time.
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Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent.
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I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue.
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Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.
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Be a craftsman in speech that thou mayest be strong, for the strength of one is the tongue, and spee...
MAXIMS OF PTAHHOTEP
Has not peace honours and glories of her own unattended by the dangers of war?
HERMOCRATES OF SYRACUSE
From Syria even to Rome I fight with wild beasts, by land and sea, by night and by day, being bound ...
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH
O thou Sun, send me as far over the earth as is my pleasure and thine, and may I make the acquaintan...
APOLLONIUS OF TYANA
Great and glorious God, and Thou Lord Jesus, I pray you shed abroad your light in the darkness of my...
FRANCIS OF ASSISI
Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI
The Father willed that his blessed and glorious Son, whom he gave to us and who was born for us, sho...
FRANCIS OF ASSISI
Men lose all the material things they leave behind them in this world, but they carry with them the ...
FRANCIS OF ASSISI
It would behoove the world to become used to this fact: that without a just solution to the Palestin...
HUSSEIN OF JORDAN
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI
I was in my thirteenth year when I heard a voice from God to help me govern my conduct. And the firs...
JOAN OF ARC
A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI
For it is in giving that we receive.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI
King of England, and you, duke of Bedford, who call yourself regent of the kingdom of France... sett...
JOAN OF ARC
I am not afraid... I was born to do this.
JOAN OF ARC
Real victories are those that protect human life, not those that result from its destruction or emer...
HUSSEIN OF JORDAN
It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI
All what we hope for is that a day will come, when we have all gone, when people will say that this ...
HUSSEIN OF JORDAN
A man must fortify himself and understand that a wise man who yields to laziness or anger or passion...
APOLLONIUS OF TYANA
Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the imp...
FRANCIS OF ASSISI
Since God had commanded it, it was necessary that I do it. Since God commanded it, even if I had a h...
JOAN OF ARC
There's only one thing I never did and wish I had done: climbed over a fence.
MARY OF TECK
Feast of Josephine Butler, Social Reformer, 1906 Commemoration of Apolo Kivebulaya, Priest, Evangel...
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX
Feast of George, Martyr, Patron of England, c.304 Commemoration of Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Ca...
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX
Honor and glory are indeed due to God and to Him alone, but He will accept neither of them if they b...
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX
Feast of Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux, Teacher, 1153 Commemoration of William & Catherine Booth, Fou...
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX
Feast of Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux, Teacher, 1153 Commemoration of William & Catherine Booth, Foun...
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX
Beginning a short series on prayer: Wherever... thou shalt be, pray secretly within thyself. If th...
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX
Commemoration of Crispin & Crispinian, Martyrs at Rome, c.285 Jesus, thou joy of loving hearts, ...
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX
Continuing a series on the person of Jesus: Jesus is honey in the mouth, music in the ear, a song ...
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX
Feast of Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux, Teacher, 1153 Commemoration of William & Catherine Booth, Fou...
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX
Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.
DIOGENES OF SINOPE
Of what use is a philosopher who doesn't hurt anybody's feelings?
DIOGENES OF SINOPE
Feast of Anselm, Abbot of Le Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1109 Jesus, as a mother you ga...
ANSELM OF CANTERBURY
Feast of Anselm, Abbot of Le Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1109 For I seek not to under...
ANSELM OF CANTERBURY
O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwell...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO
The three most ancient opinions concerning God are Anarchia, Polyarchia, and Monarchia. The first tw...
GREGORY OF NYSSA
Business tomorrow.
ARCHIAS OF THEBES
For it is not needful, to use a common proverb, that one should drink up the ocean who wishes to lea...
IRENAEUS OF LYONS