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If each man or woman could understand that every other human life is as full of sorrows, or joys, or base temptations, of heartaches and of remorse as his own . . . how much kinder, how much gentler he would be.
William Allen White
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If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be "meetings
Dave Barry
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As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
Carl Gustav Jung
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The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.
Voltaire
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When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.
Dale Carnegie
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Love, hope, fear, faith--these make humanity;
These are its sign and note and character.
Robert Browning
Quotes , Source: Paracelsus (sc. 3)
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An inadvertent step may crush the snail
That crawls at evening in the public path.
But he that has humanity, forewarned,
Will turn aside and let the reptile live.
William Cowper
Quotes , Source: Task (bk. VI)
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W'en you see a man in woe,
Walk right up and say "hullo."
Say "hullo" and "how d'ye do,"
"How's the world a-usin' you?"
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W'en you travel through the strange
Country t'other side the range,
Then the souls you've cheered will know
Who you be, an' say "hullo."
Sam Walter Foss
Quotes , Source: Hullo
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Over the brink of it
Picture it--think of it,
Dissolute man.
Lave in it--drink of it
Then, if you can.
Thomas Hood
Quotes , Source: Bridge of Sighs
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Oh, God! that bread should be so dear,
And flesh and blood so cheap!
Thomas Hood
Quotes , Source: Song of the Shirt
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For He, who gave this vast machine to roll,
Breathed Life in then, in us a Reasoning Soul;
That kindred feelings might our state improve,
And mutual wants conduct to mutual love.
Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal)
Quotes , Source: Satire XV (l. 203)
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Laborin' man an' laborin' woman
Hev one glory an' one shame;
Ev'ything thet's done inhuman
Injers all on 'em the same.
James Russell Lowell
Quotes , Source: The Biglow Papers (first series, no. 1, st. 10)
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It is good to be often reminded of the inconsistency of human
nature, and to learn to look without wonder or disgust on the
weaknesses which are found in the strongest minds.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Quotes , Source: Warren Hastings
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For nothing human foreign was to him.
James Thomson (1)
Quotes , Source: To the Memory of Lord Talbot, translation of "Humani nihil a me alienum puto"
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For the interesting and inspiring thing about America, gentlemen,
is that she asks nothing for herself except what she has a right
to ask for humanity itself.
Thomas Woodrow Wilson
Quotes , Source: in a speech at the luncheon of the Mayor of New York
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Never to blend our pleasure or our pride
With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels.
William Wordsworth
Quotes , Source: Hart-Leap Well (pt. II)
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