No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free.
John Milton
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No man who know aught can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free.
JOHN MILTON If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evi...
BARUCH SPINOZA Whoever counters the malicious with malice can never be free, but one who feels no maliciousness pac...
BUDDHA If all men are born free, why is it that all women are born slaves?
MARY ASTELL If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves?
MARY ASTELL Abolitionists believe that, as all men are born free, so all who are now held as slaves in this coun...
ELIJAH PARISH LOVEJOY I'm a free spirit, so if I am with someone it has to be a man who understands that, and not all ...
MARISA BERENSON No man knows less than the man who knows it all
SOURCE UNKNOWN All men are born equally free.
SALMON P. CHASE It's no shame to be born stupid. Only to die stupid.
ERICH MARIA REMARQUE Women have invented nothing in all that, except the men who were born as male babies and grew up to ...
JANET FLANNER There are four types of men in this world: 1. The man who knows, and knows that he knows; he is wise...
IBN GABIROL There are four types of men in this world: 1. The man who knows, and knows that he knows; he is wise...
SOLOMON IBN GABIROL BEN JUDAH A person can be educated and still be stupid, and a wise man can have no education at all.
JENNIFER A. NIELSEN All men are born free: just not for long.
JOHN LE CARRé Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
BERTRAND RUSSELL Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
BERTRAND RUSSELL One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW All men are by nature born equally free and independent.
GEORGE MASON My definition of an educated man is the fellow who knows the right thing to do at the time it has to...
CHARLES F. KETTERING One can know nothing of giving aught that is worthy to give unless one also knows how to take
HAVELOCK ELLIS All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w...
JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It...
COLSON WHITEHEAD I know what you're going to say! 'They are men, and men should be free.' A free man is dangerous to ...
DAVE SIM The sheep were interesting. They were the easiest thing. They just naturally herd, and they are natu...
JAKE GYLLENHAAL We must be free or die who speak the tongue That Shakespeare spake, the faith and morals hold Which ...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH The intelligence which has learned to be a law to itself, criticising, rejecting, appropriating, ass...
JAMES DENNEY Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't no man got to be common.
SATCHEL PAIGE When we're born. . . All of us. . . Are free. People who reject that, no matter how strong they are....
HAJIME ISAYAMA As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler
IZAAK WALTON Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves? Who knows what women's ...
BETTY FRIEDAN The enemy wasn't men, or women, or the old, or even the dead. It was just bleedin' stupid people, wh...
TERRY PRATCHETT I have always believed, heretofore, in the doctrines of the Declaration of Independence, that all me...
BENJAMIN F. WADE One man who has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men haven't and don't.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW I know what you're going to say! 'They are men, and men should be free.' A free man is d...
DAVE SIM No wonder male religious leaders so often say that humans were born in sin—because we were born to...
GLORIA STEINEM One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour to...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Men were stupid to forget what good sleuths women could be.
EDAN LEPUCKI Malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.
A.E. HOUSMAN Pouter, tumbler, and fantail are from the same source;
The racer and hack may be traced to one Hor...
LORD CHARLES NEAVES Pouter, tumbler, and fantail are from the same source; The racer and hack may be traced to one Horse...
CHARLES NEAVES Pouter, tumbler, and fantail are from the same source; The racer and hack may be traced to one Horse...
CHARLES NEAVES Dreaming is free, wishing is free, it doesn't need any currency but only God knows who soon you can ...
MOR AGEV Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't no man got to be common.
SATCHEL PAIGE No one can give anyone else the gift of the idyll; only an animal can do so, because only animals we...
MILAN KUNDERA All men are born free and equal, and have certain natural,
essential, and unalienable rights.
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR Celestial light, shine inward...that I may see and tell of things invisible to mortal sight
JOHN MILTON There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living...
JOHN ADAMS Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the ...
WILLIAM MITFORD Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the ...
WILLIAM MITFORD No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no...
HERBERT SPENCER No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no...
HERBERT SPENCER If Dr. [John A. T.] Robinson is right in saying that "God is teaching us that we must live as men wh...
E. L. MASCALL It's our goddamed city! It's our goddamed country. No terrorist can take it from us for so long as w...
CORY DOCTOROW Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet
ABRAHAM LINCOLN It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the ...
JAMES MADISON No one who is at all acquainted with the Indian in his home can deny that we are a polite people.
CHARLES EASTMAN No one knows what god thinks of anything. He only knows and no one can claim to penetrate into his m...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Freedom is for honest people. No man who is not himself honest can be free he is his own trap.
L. RON HUBBARD Freedom is for honest people. No man who is not himself honest can be free – he is his own trap.
L. RON HUBBARD The free man must be born before freedom can be won, and the brotherly man must be born before full ...
BARBARA DEMING You praise man who has the ability to perform great actions.
I admire man who can deal with gre...
TOBA BETA How stupid lovers can be! But if they were not, there would be no story.
JEAN PLAIDY Everybody, my friend, everybody lives for something better to come. That's why we want to be conside...
MAXIM GORKY You can either be the man who teaches others about the men who revolutionised or you can be a man wh...
DANIEL ROBERT O'NEILL No one can be perfectly free till all are free.
HERBERT SPENCER These things are lost to oblivion like so much about so many who are born and die without anyone tak...
NICOLE KRAUSS Malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.
A. E. HOUSMAN And malt does more than Milton can
To justify God's ways to man.
A. E. HOUSMAN Were you born stupid, Heinrich, or did you have to study?
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The enemy isn't men, or women, it's bloody stupid people and no one has the right to be stupid.
TERRY PRATCHETT Any man who can write a page of living prose adds something to our life, and the man who can, as I c...
RAYMOND CHANDLER Perfect wife is the one who knows that no man is perfect.
VIKRANT PARSAI Major Major had been born too late and too mediocre. Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve me...
JOSEPH HELLER It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, so he be man of merit
HORACE Demagogue: one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.
H.L. MENCKEN Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man's resources?
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE And malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.
A. E. HOUSMAN And malt does more than Milton can To justify the ways of God to man
ALFRED HOUSMAN And malt does more than Milton can To justify the ways of God to man.
ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN And malt does more than Milton can To justify the ways of God to man
ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Men were only made into men with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not natural...
PERCY WYNHAM LEWIS Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon th...
JOSEPH HELLER If all the Chinese men who claimed to be US-born actually were, it meant every woman in Chinatown wo...
AIMEE KLASK The man who must brag for himself knows that no one else will
ROBIN HOBB If any man doth ascribe aught of salvation, even the very least, to the free-will of man, he knoweth...
MARTIN LUTHER This oath is the oath we all swear. Not to a god, or a master, or to the Ludu Achillea...but to our ...
LESLEY LIVINGSTON No man can deny that Chief the Honourable M.A. Nanga, M.P. was
the most approachable politician in ...
CHINUA ACHEBE Our officers and men behaved like men who are determined to be free.
ANTHONY WAYNE Let no man write my epitaph; for as no man who knows my motives dare now vindicate them, let not pre...
ROBERT EMMET The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.
H. L. MENCKEN The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that doesn't have a slant. All...
E. B. WHITE The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a...
ARUNDHATI ROY Ignorance of the law excuses no man: Not that all men know the law, but because 'tis an excuse every...
JOHN SELDEN Ignorance of the law excuses no man; not that all men know the law, but because 'tis an excuse every...
JOHN SELDEN No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself. No man is free who cannot command himself...
PYTHAGORAS What does John Kerry think about Iraq? Who knows. Who cares.
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Here for his envy, will not driv...
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JOHN MILTON A crown, golden in show is but a wreath of thorns.
JOHN MILTON Indu'd
With sanctity of reason.
JOHN MILTON Subdue
By force, who reason for their law refuse,
Right reason for their law.
JOHN MILTON But all was false and hollow; though his tongue
Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear
T...
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By force, hath overcome but half his foe.
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That riches grow in hell; that soil may best
Deserve the precious bane.
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JOHN MILTON Let those who would write heroic poems make their life an heroic poem.
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JOHN MILTON Fear of change perplexes monarchs.
JOHN MILTON Yet I argue not
Again Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot
Of right or hope; but still bear u...
JOHN MILTON That in such righteousness
To them by faith imputed they may find
Justification towards God, a...
JOHN MILTON O welcome pure-ey'd Faith, white-handed Hope,
Thou hovering angel, girt with golden wings!
JOHN MILTON If this fail,
The pillar'd firmament is rottenness,
And earth's base built on stubble.
JOHN MILTON Experience, next, to thee I owe,
Best guide; not following thee, I had remain'd
In ignorance; ...
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And at another to let in the foe?
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could not hear the music.
JOHN MILTON Dancing in the chequer'd shade.
JOHN MILTON Come and trip it as ye go,
On the light fantastic toe.
JOHN MILTON Come, knit hands, and beat the ground
In a light fantastic round.
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JOHN MILTON And so sepúlchred in such pomp dost lie,
That kings for such a tomb would wish to die.
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Not harsh and crabb
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JOHN MILTON Peace has her victories which are no less renowned than war.
JOHN MILTON License they mean when they cry liberty.
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JOHN MILTON Good, the more communicated, more abundant grows.
JOHN MILTON With thee conversing I forget all time.
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JOHN MILTON Accuse not nature, she hath done her part;
Do thou but thine, and be not diffident
Of wisdom, ...
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Came not all hell broke loose? Is pain to them
L...
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JOHN MILTON Not to know me argues yourselves unknown.
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As I pace the deck alone,
And my eye in vain is seeking<...
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That, when a soul is found sincerely so,
A thousand liv...
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JOHN MILTON Sweet bird, that shun the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy!
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The labor of an age in pilèd stones,
O...
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JOHN MILTON Govern well thy appetite, lest Sin
Surprise thee, and her black attendant Death.
JOHN MILTON In naked beauty more adorned
More lovely than Pandora.
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JOHN MILTON If by fire
Of sooty coal th' empiric alchymist
Can turn, or holds it possible to turn,
M...
JOHN MILTON . . . and now expecting
Each hour their great adventurer, from the search
Of foreign words.
JOHN MILTON He seemed
For dignity compos'd and high exploit:
But all was false and hollow.
JOHN MILTON Far from all resort of mirth, / Save the cricket on the hearth!
JOHN MILTON Thus I set my printless feet
O'er the cowslip's velvet head,
That bends not as I tread.
JOHN MILTON Of herbs, and other country messes,
Which the neat-handed Phillis dresses.
JOHN MILTON In discourse more sweet,
(For Eloquence the Sound, Song charmes the sense,)
Others apart sat o...
JOHN MILTON But first and chiefest, with thee bring
Him that yon soars on golden wing,
Guiding the fiery-w...
JOHN MILTON While the cock with lively din
Scatters the rear of darkness thin,
And to the stack or the bar...
JOHN MILTON So when the sun in bed,
Curtain'd with cloudy red,
Pillows his chin upon an orient wave.
JOHN MILTON There does a sable cloud
Turn forth her silver lining on the night,
And casts a gleam over thi...
JOHN MILTON Was I deceiv'd, or did a sable cloud
Turn forth her silver lining on the night?
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Wherein the Son of Heaven's eternal King,
Of wedde...
JOHN MILTON The Pilot of the Galilean Lake.
JOHN MILTON A short retirement urges a sweet return.
JOHN MILTON What reinforcement we may gain from hope; If not, what resolution from despair.
JOHN MILTON When I consider how my light is spent
E're half my days, in this dark world and wide,
And that...
JOHN MILTON Nothing profits more than self-esteem, grounded on what is just and right.
JOHN MILTON Or stars of morning, dew-drops which the sun
Impearls on every leaf and every flower.
JOHN MILTON From morn
To moon he fell, from noon to dewy eve,
A summer's day; and with the setting sun
...
JOHN MILTON So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity,
That, when a soul is found sincerely so,
A thousand liv...
JOHN MILTON 'Tis chastity, my brother, chastity;
She that has that is clad in complete steel,
And, like a ...
JOHN MILTON 'Tis Chastity, my brother, Chastity: She that has that, is clad in complete steel
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JOHN MILTON O dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon,
Irrecoverably dark! total eclipse,
Without all hope of ...
JOHN MILTON O loss of sight, of thee I most complain!
Blind among enemies, O worse than chains,
Dungeon, o...
JOHN MILTON Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts
And eloquence.
JOHN MILTON And God made two great lights, great for their use
To man, the greater to have rule by day,
Th...
JOHN MILTON To satisfy the sharp desire I had
Of tasting those fair apples, I resolv'd
Not to defer; hunge...
JOHN MILTON So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found,
Among the faithless faithful only he.
JOHN MILTON (Eternity) a moment standing still for ever.
JOHN MILTON That golden key
That opes the palace of eternity.
JOHN MILTON All heart they live, all head, all eye, all ear,
All intellect, all sense, and as they please
...
JOHN MILTON Whence and what are thou, execrable shape?
JOHN MILTON Of calling shapes, and beck'ning shadows dire,
And airy tongues that syllable men's names.
JOHN MILTON But zeal moved thee;
To please thy gods thou didst it!
JOHN MILTON But his zeal
None seconded, as out of season judged,
Or singular and rash.
JOHN MILTON A Spirit, zealous, as he seemed, to know
More of the Almighty's works, and chiefly Man,
God's ...
JOHN MILTON Which, if not victory, is yet revenge.
JOHN MILTON Stood up, the strongest and the fiercest spirit
That fought in heaven, now fiercer by despair.
JOHN MILTON Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar
Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined;
Till a...
JOHN MILTON Let his tormentor conscience find him out.
JOHN MILTON Rocks whereon greatest men have oftest wreck'd.
JOHN MILTON O nightingale, that on yon bloomy spray
Warblest at eve, when all the woods are still;
Thou wi...
JOHN MILTON Sweet bird that shunn'st the nose of folly,
Most musical, most melancholy!
Thee, chauntress, o...
JOHN MILTON The bird of Jove, stoop'd from his aery tour,
Two birds of gayest plume before him drove.
JOHN MILTON Hast thou betrayed my credulous innocence
With vizor'd falsehood and base forgery?
JOHN MILTON For such kind of borrowing as this, if it be not bettered by the
borrower, among good authors is ac...
JOHN MILTON And filled the air with barbarous dissonance.
JOHN MILTON Adam, well may we labour, still to dress
This garden, still to tend plant, herb, and flower.
JOHN MILTON Thus repuls'd, our final hope
Is flat despair.
JOHN MILTON So on he fares, and to the border comes,
Of Eden, where delicious Paradise,
Now nearer, crowns...
JOHN MILTON From that high mount of God whence light and shade
Spring both, the face of brightest heaven had c...
JOHN MILTON For such a numerous host
Fled not in silence through the frighted deep
With ruin upon ruin, ro...
JOHN MILTON The low'ring element
Scowls o'er the darken'd landscape.
JOHN MILTON These eyes, tho' clear
To outward view of blemish or of spot,
Bereft of light, their seeing ha...
JOHN MILTON Where glowing embers through the room
Teach light to counterfeit a gloom.
JOHN MILTON With thy long levell'd rule of streaming light.
JOHN MILTON So Satan, whom repulse upon repulse
Met ever, and to shameful silence brought,
Yet gives not o...
JOHN MILTON The palpable obscure.
JOHN MILTON The unsunn'd heaps
Of miser's treasures.
JOHN MILTON Sweetest Echo, sweetest nymph, that liv'st unseen
Within thy airy shell,
By slow Meander's mar...
JOHN MILTON Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research.
JOHN MILTON Under the sooty flag of Acheron,
Harpies and Hydras.
JOHN MILTON For spirits when they please
Can either sex assume, or both.
JOHN MILTON Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still
air of delightful studies.
JOHN MILTON Surer to prosper than prosperity could have assur'd us.
JOHN MILTON Who would not, finding way, break loose from hell,
. . . .
And boldly venture to whatever plac...
JOHN MILTON Rather than be less
Car'd not to be at all.
JOHN MILTON For I no sooner in my heart divin'd
My heart, which by a secret harmony
Still moves with thine...
JOHN MILTON Power ought to serve as a check to power.
JOHN MILTON Without his rod revers'd,
And backward mutters of dissevering power.
JOHN MILTON He's gone, and who knows how may he report
Thy words by adding fuel to the flame?
JOHN MILTON So spake the Fiend, and with necessity,
The tyrant's plea, excused his devilish deed.
JOHN MILTON If weakness may excuse,
What murderer, what traitor, parricide,
Incestuous, sacrilegious, but ...
JOHN MILTON Oh, shame to men! devil with devil damn'd
Firm concord holds, men only disagree
Of creatures ...
JOHN MILTON For Solomon, he lived at ease, and full
Of honour, wealth, high fare, aimed not beyond
Higher ...
JOHN MILTON Who can enjoy alone?
Or all enjoying what contentment find?
JOHN MILTON Though throned in highest bliss
Equal to God, and equally enjoying
God-like fruition.
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JOHN MILTON In her face excuse
Came prologue, and apology too prompt.
JOHN MILTON Human face divine.
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JOHN MILTON When thou attended gloriously from heaven,
Shalt in the sky appear, and from thee send
Thy sum...
JOHN MILTON Nor jealousy
Was understood, the injur'd lover's hell.
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JOHN MILTON For never can true reconcilement grow,
Where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep.
JOHN MILTON Revenge, at first though sweet,
Bitter ere long back on itself recoils.
JOHN MILTON Yet from those flames
No light, but rather darkness visible.
JOHN MILTON Just then return'd at shut of evening flowers.
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Had in her sober livery all things clad:
Silence ...
JOHN MILTON The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light t...
JOHN MILTON Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where mos...
JOHN MILTON None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but licence.
JOHN MILTON How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth,
Stol'n on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!
JOHN MILTON