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Charlotte Bronte quote: " in short, as a man, he would have wished to coerce me into..."
... in short, as a man, he would have wished to coerce me into obedience; Charlotte Bronte
And so she shuddered away from the threat of his enduring love. What did he mean? Had she not the power to daunt him? She would see. It was more daring than became a man to threaten her. Elizabeth Gaskell
Plutarch quote: "The whole like of a man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it."
The whole like of a man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it. Plutarch
William Shakespeare quote: "Ho! now you strike like the blind man; t'was the boy that..."
Ho! now you strike like the blind man; t'was the boy that stole your meat, and you'll beat the post. William Shakespeare
Zakath's face grew thoughtful. "You know something, Garion?" he said. "Man thinks he owns the world, but we share it with all sorts of creatures who are indifferent to our overlordship. They have their own societies, and I supposed even their own cultures. They don't even pay attention to us, do you?"Only when we inconvenience them...It teaches us humility," Garion agreed. David Eddings
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley quote: "What can stop the determined heart and resolved will of man?"
What can stop the determined heart and resolved will of man? Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Milan Kundera quote: "She regarded books as the emblems of secret brotherhood. A man..."
She regarded books as the emblems of secret brotherhood. A man with this sort of library couldn't possibly hurt her. Milan Kundera
American grammar doesn't have the sturdiness of British grammar (a British advertising man with a proper education can make magazine copy for ribbed condoms sound like the Magna goddam Carta), but it has its own scruffy charm Stephen King
George Eliot quote: "A man falling into dark waters seeks a momentary footing even..."
A man falling into dark waters seeks a momentary footing even on sliding stones. George Eliot
Giacomo Casanova quote: "When a man is in love very little is enough to throw him into..."
When a man is in love very little is enough to throw him into despair and as little to enhance his joy to the utmost. Giacomo Casanova
Do you desire to be wholly one; always day and night in one another's company? For if this is what you desire, I am ready to melt and fuse you together, so that being two you shall become one, and while you live a common life as if you were a single man, and after your death in the world below still be one departed soul, instead of two.... Plato
As a sunbeam perishes when cut off from the sun, so man apart from God would pass back into the void of nothingness from which he first leaped at the creative call. Aiden Wilson Tozer
Such beliefs were born in man's willful refusal to use his mind, in his lust for the unearned, his wish for success without effort. Such beliefs were the embodiment of hatred for all that was good, hatred for virtue, hatred for value. It was ultimately a hatred of themselves, of life, of existence. It was that hate, that dedication to death, that was the true manifestation of evil. Terry Goodkind
The hell with it! There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do. It's all part of nice, but that's as far as any man got a right to say. John Steinbeck
An evil man threw tobacco in the macaque-rhesus eyes.' Oleg was struck dumb. Up to then he had been strolling along smiling with knowing condescension, but now he felt like yelling and roaring across the whole zoo, as though the tobacco had been thrown into his own eyes. 'Why?' Thrown into its eyes, just like that! 'Why? It's senseless! Why?'" - Kostoglotov Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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