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If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling.


Joseph Addison

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GORDON B. HINCKLEY Men know not the gold which lies in the mine of Christ Jesus, or surely they would dig in it night a...
CHARLES SPURGEON Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
BEN JONSON Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times
BEN JONSON There would be fewer divorces if men gave as much loving attention to their wives as they do their c...
VIKRANT PARSAI Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be, yet such wherein men may thy judgment see.
WILLIAM WYCHERLEY Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evi...
G. K. CHESTERTON I don't think people have the right to be angry, if they look at the whole thing. But if they get a ...
WILLIAM BENNETT The words I'm singing now Mean nothing more than meow to an animal
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MARK FUHRMAN It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.
VANCE HAVNER It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.
HERACLITUS It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS It is vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving, wherein men find pleasure to be deceived.
JOHN LOCKE If governments did not mislead their citizens so often, there would be less need for secrecy, and if...
PETER SINGER If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evi...
BARUCH SPINOZA I know not if the dark or bright Shall be by lot; If that wherein my hopes delight Be be...
HENRY ALFORD I know not if the dark or bright shall be by lot; if that wherein my hopes delight be best or not.
HENRY ALFORD If men are so wicked (as we see them now) with religion, what would they be without it?
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Such is the way of all superstition, whether in astrology, dreams, omens, divine judgments, or the l...
FRANCIS BACON, SR. Such is the way of all superstition, whether in astrology, dreams, omens, divine judgments, or the l...
FRANCIS BACON SR. There would be fewer absent fathers, if straight men were turned on only by women with whom they wou...
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.
GLORIA STEINEM It would be almost unbelievable, if history did not record the tragic fact that men have gone to war...
WALTER PARKER STACY Disguise, I see thou art a wickedness,/ Wherein the...enemy does much.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There would be far less suffering in the world if human beings-God knows why they are made like this...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein is the breath of life.
BIBLE Heaven would indeed be heaven if lovers were there permitted as much enjoyment as they had experienc...
GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO Heaven would indeed be heaven if lovers were there permitted as much enjoyment as they had experienc...
GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO I found out about reviews early on. They're mostly written by sad men on bad afternoons. That...
BARRY HANNAH Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, bu...
TREY PARKER AND MATT STONE All men would be tyrants if they could.
DANIEL DEFOE All men would be cowards if they could.
EARL ROCHESTER In principle the great religions of the world do not differ as much as they appear to.
ERNEST HOLMES I think he would consider that there are very few issues that are so dangerous that they can't be di...
BOB WESTBROOK If men had to do their vile work without the assistance of woman and the stimulant of strong drink t...
CAROLINE M. NICHOLS CHURCHILL Then, once you got there, you just hoped someone hadn't ripped the article out of the journal that y...
BILL MILLER Technology tends to be regarded as less defensive, so if investors become more nervous, they would t...
ELIZABETH MACKAY Democrats never agree on anything, that's why they're Democrats. If they agreed with each other, the...
WILL ROGERS For all men would be cowards if they durst
JOHN WILMOT (2ND EARL OF ROCHESTER) I do not know if the people of the United States would vote for superior men if they ran for office,...
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE There are men that will make you books, and turn them loose into the world, with as much dispatch as...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA Men shall have the preeminence above women, because of those advantages wherein God hath caused the ...
QURAN And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of ...
BIBLE There is an hour wherein a man might be happy all his life, could he find it.
GEORGE HERBERT There is an hour wherein a man might be happy all his life, could he find it
GEORGE HERBERT I would gladly admit women are superior to men if only they would stop trying to be the same as us.
SACHA GUITRY Men would be great criminals did they need as many laws as they break.
CHARLES JOHN DARLING Men would be great criminals did they need as many laws as they break
CHARLES JOHN DARLING As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.
NORA EPHRON They didn't want anything to be on TV showing a bunch of angry people hollering at the president. It...
GEORGE EDWARDS Historians relate, not so much what is done, as what they would have believed.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of ...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU They would agree to have Sue, a neighbor, come in when we weren't there. Then they would forget they...
JUDY MCKELLAR I don't think we would limit her. If the swelling goes down and the function is there, she would be ...
GEORGIA FISCHER For what is it wherein ye were inferior to other churches, except it be that I myself was not burden...
BIBLE If men would as fervently seek after love and righteousness as they do after opinions, there would b...
JAKOB BOHME If there are activists in Cosas and they do poorly academically, then they would be cited as example...
KGALEMA MOTLANTHE If a company is taken by surprise it could cost hundreds of millions, though if they have time to pr...
JAKOB EDBERG If Apple opened up their standards, they would sell more, not less,
HILARY ROSEN What is the use of theorizing as to wherein lies the charm that moves us?
ALFRED DE VIGNY Men know that women are an over-match for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or most ignora...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Men know that women are an overmatch for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ign...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Seriousness is the very thing wherein consisteth our sincerity. If thou art not serious, thou art no...
RICHARD BAXTER Democrats never agree on anything, that's why they're Democrats. If they agreed with each ot...
WILL ROGERS If everybody is looking for it, then nobody is finding it. If we were cultured, we would not be cons...
PABLO PICASSO If Congress were able to act, there would be much less activity in the state legislatures.
JOSH BERNSTEIN That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he s...
THOMAS HOBBES That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defence of himself he s...
THOMAS HOOD We hope they can raise the quota. The main question is how much the increase in the quota would be i...
CAO XINYU If humans did not manufacture some of their own to appear like better people, people would not aspir...
CRAIG STONE You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go
JEANNETTE RANKIN My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away; / Which a...
BIBLE All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe no...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS These suits would be laughable if they were not so harmful,
JAMES SENSENBRENNER So is this great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts.
BIBLE They will come a time in life wherein you'll wish to be adored and the little thing you can do to ex...
GUNDO MULAUDZI I agree, the world would be a better place if doctors were less enthusiastic about adopting very new...
BEN GOLDACRE When the priests enter therein, then shall they not go out of the holy place into the utter court, b...
BIBLE In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil
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CHANTALLE RYE I was hopeful they would agree to a name change. I'm sure there will be lots of alumnae who are disa...
RACHEL INGBER If people knew how hard I worked at my art, they would not consider me a genius.
MICHELANGELO Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if the...
ABIGAIL ADAMS This world that we live in would be perfect if there were less prejudice and people who think they a...
WERLEY NORTREUS The manners of mankind do not differ so widely as our voyage writers would make us believe. Perhaps ...
MARY WORLEY MONTAGU There are many females of ability to whom the business of instructing children is highly acceptable;...
EMMA WILLARD I would not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Men should be what they seem;Or those that be not, would they might seem none!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If one were to bring ten of the wisest men in the world together and ask them what was the most stup...
DAVID HILBERT If we did but know how little some enjoy of the great things that they possess, there would not b...
YOUNG As it would be no good if we only insist on our opinions, the American side should also fully consid...
FUKUSHIRO NUKAGA The psychologists and the metaphysicians wrangle endlessly over the nature of the thinking process i...
H.L. MENCKEN We're all sisters and brothers. So like color and those issues now, if we dealt with it much, much l...
BAI LING If what most men admire, they would despise, 'Twould look as if mankind were growing wise
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ALFRED BEA Men are much more apt to agree in what they do than in what they think.
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JOSEPH ADDISON Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
JOSEPH ADDISON I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fru...
JOSEPH ADDISON I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot r...
JOSEPH ADDISON What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattere...
JOSEPH ADDISON To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great tru...
JOSEPH ADDISON True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, fr...
JOSEPH ADDISON The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon ...
JOSEPH ADDISON Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.
JOSEPH ADDISON A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed ...
JOSEPH ADDISON O ye powers that search The heart of man, and weigh his inmost thoughts, If I have done amiss,...
JOSEPH ADDISON From hence, let fierce contending nations know, What dire effects from civil discord flow.
JOSEPH ADDISON I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them f...
JOSEPH ADDISON And pleas'd th' Almighty's orders to perform, Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
JOSEPH ADDISON Yet then from all my grief, O Lord, Thy mercy set me free, Whilst in the confidence of pray'r ...
JOSEPH ADDISON It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. ...
JOSEPH ADDISON To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, ...
JOSEPH ADDISON Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
JOSEPH ADDISON Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.
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