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There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about happiness, art, magic, nothing, things, man

Man is the creature of circumstances.

Quote by Robert Owen about man, circumstances

I believe in the equality of man, and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy.

Quote by Thomas Paine about man, mercy, equality, faith, justice, happiness

Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home.

Quote by Bill Crosby about people, earth, home, children, human imperfections

We fat all creatures else to fat us and we fat ourselves for maggots.

Quote by William Shakespeare

An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.

Quote by William Faulkner about art, miracle, artists

No human creature can give orders to love.

Quote by George Sand about love, human imperfections

All creatures are united to God alone in an immediate union. They depend essentially and directly upon Him. Being all alike equally impotent, they cannot be in reciprocal dependence upon one another.

Quote by Nicolas Malebranche about god, union, being

Man is a creature of a willful head, and hardly driven is, but easily led.

Quote by Samuel Daniel about people, heads, man

In the desert I saw a creature, naked, bestial, Who, squatting upon the ground, Held his heart in his hands, And ate of it. I said: "Is it good, friend? " "It is bitter-bitter, " he answered; "But I like it Because it is bitter, And...

Quote by Stephen Crane about poetry, bitter, heart, prison, good, good luck

Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a good book, kills reason its self.

Quote by John Milton about crime, self-control, reason, god, good, good luck, man

Woman is the sun, an extraordinary creature, one that makes the imagination gallop.

Quote by Marcello Mastroianni about woman, sun, imagination

God is indeed dead. He died of self-horror when He saw the creature He had made in His own image.

Quote by Irving Layton about god, self-control

My anxiety poem I write a poem today it will die tomorrow. It rises on its shivering feet of words it catches my attention and pulse as a living creature in another century - higher, unborn - and rises up, upper and upper, from...

Quote by Olimpiu Nusfelean about poetry, silence, attention, common sense, sense, word, death

The pearl is lovelier than the most brilliant of crystalline stones, the moralist declares, because it is made through the suffering of a living creature.

Quote by Herbert George Wells about opinion, suffering, love

Asking questions about what and where you live is mandatory for a creature that is endowed with reason.

Quote by Mariana Fulger about question, reason, contentment

Words are reborn and die – through the inner law of their origin, from behind their eyes, their forehead and mouth, just like some vivid, primordial creatures: sprightly…

Quote by Dumitru Găleşanu about word