I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom --one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise.
John Keats
Related I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom /one fill... JOHN KEATS I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one fille... JOHN KEATS When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man. STANLEY KUBRICK Shall I ask you how the church is to be filled, if a man is neither to take orders with a living, no... JANE AUSTEN However much you study, you cannot know without action. A donkey laden with books is neither a... SAADI He is a man, who is to be a man, the fruit is always present in the seed. TERTULLIAN Knowledge can be communicated, but wisdom cannot. A man can find it, he can live it, he can be fille... HERMANN HESSE Man is neither good nor bad; he is born with instincts and abilities. HONORE DE BALZAC Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid. ... RAYMOND CHANDLER To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible. ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY [If] a man doesn't have a job or an income, he has neither life nor liberty nor the possibility for ... MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. I could not become anything; neither good nor bad; neither a scoundrel nor an honest man; neither a ... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY He is neither a strategist nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is... NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man. MARAT SAFIN He is neither a strategist nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is... NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF Do you want to be a man of today or a man of tomorrow? MUSTAFA KEMAL ATATURK Not to discuss with a man worthy of conversation is to waste the man. To discuss with a man not wort... CONFUCIUS The truly proud man knows neither superiors nor inferiors. The first he does not admit of; the last ... WILLIAM HAZLITT The truly proud man knows neither superiors nor inferiors. The first he does not admit of; the last... WILLIAM HAZLITT I am neither good, nor bad, neither angel nor devil, I am a man, I am a vampire. MICHAEL ROMKEY Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive y... GEORGE BERNARD SHAW There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he hath neither child nor brother: yet is there ... BIBLE Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then... JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid..... RAYMOND CHANDLER Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid. ... REBECCA HARDING DAVIS That man is great, and he alone,
Who serves a greatness not his own,
For neither praise nor pe... LORD LYTTON (EDWARD ROBERT BULWER LYTTON) ("OWEN MEREDITH") The junior senator from Wisconsin, by his reckless charges, has so preyed upon the fears and hatreds... J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down... JOHANNES TAULER A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man who does it needs a day's sustenanc... GEORGE BERNARD SHAW A man without happiness is neither good nor well. VIKRANT PARSAI A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man
who does it needs a day's sustenan... GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the i... BERTRAND RUSSELL The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to ... E. W. HOWE The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to ... EDGAR WATSON HOWE As far as Saddam Hussein being a great military strategist, he is neither a strategist, nor is he ... GENERAL NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF A wise man is he who understands that anybody else can be wiser. JECON B. NADELA Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of disti... DIOGENES As far as Saddam Hussein being a great military strategist, he is neither a strategist, nor is he sc... NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF A woman who is betrothed to a man gets happy with him for neither his six-pack Abs nor six inch drag... ANUJ SOMANY Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of th... DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the f... DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER Be neither silly, nor cunning, but wise BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The measure of a man is what he does with power. PLATO Not only is it harder to be a man, it is also harder to become one. ARIANNA HUFFINGTON To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a go... NAPOLEON BONAPARTE Neither Man, nor machine can replace its creator. TAPAN GHOSH I am neither a child, a young man, nor an ancient; nor am I of any caste. GURU NANAK I am neither a child, a young man, nor an ancient; nor am I of any caste GURU NANAK Neither lend money to a great man nor borrow it from a powerful one. VIKRANT PARSAI That man is great, and he alone, Who serves a greatness not his own, For neither praise nor pe... EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON Is there not
A tongue in every star that talks with man,
And wooes him to be wise? nor wooes ... MRS. ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of rec... SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE When the righteous man truth away from his righteousness that he hath committed and doeth that which... SAMUEL BUTLER The glutton cannot turn his mind to God,” he said dismissively. “But neither can the starving ma... KATHERINE ARDEN A true great Man will neither trample on a Worm, nor sneak to an Emperor. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN If a man cannot serve two masters, neither can Christianity, or several thousand of them as the case... E.A. BUCCHIANERI The historian should be fearless and incorruptible; a man of independence, loving frankness and trut... LUCIAN A slave cannot be freed, save he do it himself. Nor can you enslave a free man; the very most you ca... ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness ... HERMANN HESSE Two things are as big as the man who possesses them - neither bigger nor smaller. One is a minute, t... CHANNING POLLOCK Conscience lays the foundation. Ideology may provide explanations for the actions. He who is hollowe... JONATHAN CHEN It's funny, you know, they're always telling me to be a man, take it like a man, act like a man, lik... CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE From praise, as from a shadow, a man is neither bigger nor smaller DANISH PROVERB James is studying architecture now, but neither Paul nor I would be surprised if he moves into music... LINDA EASTMAN MCCARTNEY The proud man can learn humility, but he will be proud of it. MIGNON MCLAUGHLIN The proud man can learn humility, but he will be proud of it MIGNON MCLAUGHLIN No one ever accepts criticism so cheerfully. Neither the man who utters it nor the man who invites i... R.K. NARAYAN The Gross National Product measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our lear... ROBERT KENNEDY People themselves makes a lots of mistakes and still loves himself,
and they never forget a single m... OM BENIWAL You can not change what happened or bring back the past. But you can change the future by being stro... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA And no Grand Inquisitor has in readiness such terrible tortures as has anxiety, and no spy knows how... SCOTT STOSSEL He neither walks with the multitude nor cheers with them. The writer who is a real writer is a rebel... WILLIAM SAROYAN Jesus neither said,"It will be finished", nor "It may be finished", but He said,"It is finished". KIMTO OCHE EMMANUEL A man of guilt acknowledges and changes himself immediately on being hinted slightly about his fault... ANUJ SOMANY I'd love to be a man for a day, just to see what it's like. BRITTANY MURPHY Neither a wise nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the futur... DWIGHT D EISENHOWER A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several ... NAPOLEON BONAPARTE If anyone thinks he has faith and yet is indifferent towards this possession, is neither cold nor ho... SøREN KIERKEGAARD Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a ... BIBLE If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself,... FRANCIS QUARLES Offer a wise man to be the king of the world, he will refuse it because wisdom is already a kingdom ... MEHMET MURAT ILDAN The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose atte... E. M. CIORAN The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose atte... EMILE M. CIORAN Since truth and constancy are vain,
Since neither love, nor sense of pain,
Nor force of reason... GEORGE GRANVILLE, LORD LANDSDOWNE A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a ... LORD CHESTERFIELD A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a ... PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, blo... JOHN MILTON Gentlemen, let us suppose that man is not stupid. (Indeed one cannot refuse to suppose that, if only... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Give a foolish man money & his foolishness will become more pronounced,but give a wise man money & h... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state ... ALEXANDRE DUMAS There cannot live an unhappier creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of recei... WILLIAM TEMPLE SR. A lawyer's relationship to justice and wisdom is on a par with a piano tuner's relationship to a con... LUCILLE KALLEN Nobody should be whipped. Remember that, once and for all. Neither man nor animal can be influenced ... MIKHAIL BULGAKOV Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you, you will be neith... NAPOLEON HILL The atrocious crime of being a young man . . . I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny. WILLIAM PITT THE ELDER Who is so deaf or so blind as he that willfully will neither hear nor see? ENGLISH PROVERB Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD If you think it is when you have enough that you can give to others, you will never give. No man can... ALALE ANTHONY An Individualist is a man who lives for his own sake and by his own mind; he neither sacrifices hims... AYN RAND That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future. ANATOLE FRANCE
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Too happy, happy brook,
Thy bubblings ne'er remember
Apollo... JOHN KEATS Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness!
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;
Conspiring wi... JOHN KEATS Oh for a life of sensations rather than thoughts. JOHN KEATS A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it. JOHN KEATS And on the balmy zephyrs tranquil rest
The silver clouds.
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Orbed is the moon and bright,
And the stars they glisten, gli... JOHN KEATS You have ravished me away by a Power I cannot resist; and yet I
could resist till I saw you; and ev... JOHN KEATS And lucent syrops, tinct with cinnamon. JOHN KEATS Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave a paradise for a sect. JOHN KEATS Though the most beautiful creature were waiting for me at the end of a journey or a walk; though the... JOHN KEATS O Solitude! If I must with thee dwell, Let it not be among the jumbled heap of murky buildings JOHN KEATS I long to believe in immortality. . . . If I am destined to be
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That they may bind the moss in leafy nets. JOHN KEATS Wherein lies happiness? In that which becks Our ready minds to fellowship divine, A fellow... JOHN KEATS There was an awful rainbow once in heaven;
We know her woof, her texture; she is given
In the ... JOHN KEATS I never felt my Mind repose upon anything with complete and undistracted enjoyment - upon no person ... JOHN KEATS You are always new. The last of your kisses was ever the sweetest. JOHN KEATS I go amongst the buildings of a city and I see a Man hurrying along - to what? JOHN KEATS I was too much in solitude, and consequently was obliged to be in continual burning of thought, as a... JOHN KEATS Even now I am perhaps not speaking from myself: but from some character in whose soul I now live. JOHN KEATS Ah! dearest love, sweet home of all my fears, and hopes, and joys, and panting miseries, T... JOHN KEATS I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. JOHN KEATS If I am destined to be happy with you here—how short is the longest Life—I wish to believe in im... JOHN KEATS For axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses. JOHN KEATS The world is too brutal for me—I am glad there is such a thing as the grave—I am sure I shall ne... JOHN KEATS I must choose between despair and Energy──I choose the latter. JOHN KEATS O for a life of Sensations rather than of Thoughts! JOHN KEATS Through the dancing poppies stole
A breeze most softly lulling to my soul. JOHN KEATS The poppies hung
Dew-dabbed on their stalks. JOHN KEATS He ne'er is crowned with immortality Who fears to follow where airy voices lead. JOHN KEATS St Agnes' Eve--Ah, bitter chill it was!
The owl, for all his feathers, was a-cold. JOHN KEATS Those green-robed senators of mighty woods,
Tall oaks, branch-charmed by the earnest stars,
Dr... JOHN KEATS Adieu! adieu! thy plaintive anthem fades
Past the near meadows, over the still stream,
Up th... JOHN KEATS Where the nightingale doth sing
Not a senseless, tranced thing,
But divine melodious truth. JOHN KEATS Thou wast not born for death, immortal bird!
No hungry generations tread thee down;
The voice ... JOHN KEATS Souls of poets dead and gone,
What Elysium have ye known,
Happy field or mossy cavern,
C... JOHN KEATS Hear ye not the hum
Of mighty workings? JOHN KEATS When all the birds are faint with the hot sun,
And hide in cooling trees, a voice will run
Fro... JOHN KEATS Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almos... JOHN KEATS Beauty is truth, truth beauty, --that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. JOHN KEATS Tis the witching hour of night, Or bed is the moon and bright, And the stars they glisten, g... JOHN KEATS Talking of Pleasure, this moment I was writing with one hand, and with the other holding to my Mouth... JOHN KEATS I love you the more that I believe you have liked me for my own sake and for nothing else. JOHN KEATS I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections and the truth of imagination. Wha... JOHN KEATS The only means of strengthening one's intelligence is to make up one's mind about nothing-- to let t... JOHN KEATS How beautiful, if sorrow had not made
Sorrow more beautiful than Beauty's self. JOHN KEATS To Sorrow
I bade good-morrow,
And though to leave her far away behind;
But cheerly, chee... JOHN KEATS He play'd an ancient ditty long since mute,
In Provence call'd, "La belle dame sans merci." JOHN KEATS On a lone winter evening, when the frost
Has wrought a silence. JOHN KEATS There is a budding morrow in midnight. JOHN KEATS Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, / Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; / Conspiring with... JOHN KEATS Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness JOHN KEATS The latest dream I ever dreamed / On the cold hill side. JOHN KEATS Should ever the fine-eyed maid to me be kind; Ah! surely it must be whenever I find; Some flowery sp... JOHN KEATS Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, and many goodly states and kingdoms seen. JOHN KEATS Virgin-choir to make delicious moan / Upon the midnight hours. JOHN KEATS Oh what can ail thee, wretched wight, / Alone and palely loitering; / The sedge is withered from the... JOHN KEATS Soon, up aloft, / The silver, snarling trumpets 'gan to chide. JOHN KEATS O, sorrow!
Why dost borrow
Heart's lightness from the merriment of May? JOHN KEATS O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell,
Let it not be among the jumbled heap
Of murky building... JOHN KEATS Dry your eyes--O dry your eyes,
For I was taught in Paradise
To ease my breast of melodies. JOHN KEATS We read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the author. JOHN KEATS My chest of books divide amongst my friends-- JOHN KEATS Touch has a memory. O say, love, say, What can I do to kill it and be free? JOHN KEATS Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know JOHN KEATS I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of the Imagination. JOHN KEATS Whatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth -whether it existed before or not JOHN KEATS Bright Star Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art— Not in lone s... JOHN KEATS When shall we pass a day alone? I have had a thousand kisses, for which with my whole soul I thank l... JOHN KEATS No sooner had I stepp'd into these pleasures Than I began to think of rhymes and measures: JOHN KEATS I wish I was either in your arms full of faith, or that a Thunder bolt would strike me. JOHN KEATS My love is selfish. I cannot breathe without you. JOHN KEATS I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for their religion-- I have shuddered at... JOHN KEATS Lorenzo, a young palmer in Love's eye. JOHN KEATS I wish to believe in immortality-I wish to live with you forever. JOHN KEATS My mind has been the most discontented and restless one that ever was put into a body too small for ... JOHN KEATS A thing of beauty is a joy forever: Its loveliness increases; It will never Pass into... JOHN KEATS If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree, it had better not come at all JOHN KEATS Beauty is truth, truth beauty, - that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know JOHN KEATS A thing of beauty is a joy forever; its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness JOHN KEATS Leaving great verse unto a little clan. JOHN KEATS Souls of poets dead and gone, / What Elysium have ye known, / Happy field or mossy cavern, / Choicer... JOHN KEATS Away with old Romance! Away with novels, plots and plays of foreign courts; Away with love-verses, s... JOHN KEATS Each Bond-street buck conceits, unhappy elf;
He shows his clothes! alas! he shows himself.
O... JOHN KEATS I wish I could say Tom was any better. His identity presses upon me so all day that I am obliged to ... JOHN KEATS A poet is the most unpoetical of anything in existence, because he has no identity - he is continual... JOHN KEATS Their smiles, / Wan as primroses gathered at midnight / By chilly-fingered Spring. JOHN KEATS Where's the cheek that doth not fade, / Too much gazed at? JOHN KEATS The red-breast whistles from a garden-croft;/ And gathering swallows twitter in the skies. JOHN KEATS I stood tip-toe upon a little hill. JOHN KEATS Joy, whose hand is ever at his lips, bidding adieu JOHN KEATS I do think better of womankind than to suppose they care whether Mister John Keats five feet high li... JOHN KEATS Where's the face / One would meet in every place? / Where's the voice, however soft, / One would hea... JOHN KEATS I cannot see what flowers are at my feet, / Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs. JOHN KEATS Pass into nothingness. JOHN KEATS A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it JOHN KEATS Once upon a time, the American met the Automobile and fell in love. Unfortunately, this led him into... JOHN KEATS On a half-reapèd furrow sound asleep, / Drowsed with the fume of poppies, while thy hook / Spares t... JOHN KEATS Here lies one whose name was writ in water. JOHN KEATS I see a lilly on thy brow, / With anguish moist and fever dew; / And on thy cheek a fading rose / Fa... JOHN KEATS Philosophy will clip an angel's wings. JOHN KEATS Hard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter. JOHN KEATS Pleasure is oft a visitant; but pain / Clings cruelly to us. JOHN KEATS Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the high... JOHN KEATS And there I shut her wild, wild eyes / With kisses four. JOHN KEATS The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy; but there is a ... JOHN KEATS O for the gentleness of old Romance, the simple planning of a minstrel's song! JOHN KEATS When I behold, upon the night's starred face, / Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance. JOHN KEATS I am certain of nothing but the Holiness of the Heart's affections and the Truth of the Imagination JOHN KEATS Who would wish to be among the commonplace crowd of the little famous - who are each individually lo... JOHN KEATS Mortality / Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep. JOHN KEATS Parting they seemed to tread upon the air,/ Twin roses by the zephyr blown apart / Only to meet agai... JOHN KEATS Point me out the way / To any one particular beauteous star. JOHN KEATS Now a soft kiss -- Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss JOHN KEATS St Agnes' Eve - Ah, bitter chill it was! / The owl, for all his feathers, was a-cold; / The hare lim... JOHN KEATS Thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees, / In some melodious plot / of beechen green, and shadows numb... JOHN KEATS I have good reason to be content, for thank God I can read and perhaps understand Shakespe... JOHN KEATS Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I... JOHN KEATS Fairy Song Shed no tear! oh, shed no tear! The flower will bloom another year. Weep n... JOHN KEATS But when the melancholy fit shall fall / Sudden from heaven like a weeping cloud, / That fosters the... JOHN KEATS