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«Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing»
Author: Alexander Pope
(Poet)
| About:
Action,
Behavior,
Generosity
| Keywords:
cunning, cunning man, generous
«No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as not to have the weakness sometimes to play the fool»
«Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.»
Author: Charles de Gaulle
| About:
Action
| Keywords:
cunning, cunning man, dose, doses, dosing, egoism, hardness, high quality, regarded
«Women are told from their infancy, and taught by the example of their mothers, that a little knowledge of human weakness, justly termed cunning, softness of temper, outward obedience and a scrupulous attention to a puerile kind of propriety, will obtain for them the protection of man.»
Author: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
cunning, cunning man, infancy, justly, mothers, obedience, obtain, propriety, protection, puerile, scrupulous, softness, termed
«Disease an never be conquered, can never be quelled by emotion's willful screaming or faith's symbolic prayer. It can only be conquered by the energy of humanity and the cunning in the mind of man. In the patience of a Curie, in the enlightenment of a Faraday, a Rutherford, a Pasteur, a Nightingale, and all other apostles of light and cleanliness, rather than of a woebegone godliness, we shall find final deliverance from plague, pestilence, and famine.»
Author: Sean O'Casey
(Playwright)
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apostles, cleanliness, cunning man, Curie, deliverance, enlightenment, famine, Faraday, godliness, nightingale, nightingales, Pasteur, pestilence, plague, quell, quelled, Rutherford, screaming, symbolic, the Enlightenment, willful, woebegone
«And now I have sent a cunning man, endued with understanding, of Huram my father's, / The son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father was a man of Tyre, skilful to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, in iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson; also to grave any manner of graving, and to find out every device which shall be put to him, with thy cunning men, and with the cunning men of my lord David thy father.»
«The cunning man steals a horse, the wise man lets him alone.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| Keywords:
cunning man, steals
«One Man may be more cunning than another, but not more cunning than every body else.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| Keywords:
body, cunning, cunning man, one-man
«Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Wisdom
| Keywords:
Almost always, cunning, cunning man
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