12 Quotes by James F. Cooper about Men
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Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest man and to the gentleman.
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God has given the salt lick to the deer; and He has given to man, red-skin and white, the delicious spring at which to slake his thirst.
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All greatness of character is dependent on individuality. The man who has no other existence than that which he partakes in common with all around him, will never have any other than an existence of mediocrity.
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A soul,--a spark of the never-dying flame that separates man from all the other beings of earth.
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The air, the water and the ground are free gifts to man and no one has the power to portion them out in parcels. Man must drink and breathe and walk and therefore each man has a right to his share of each.
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It is better for a man to die at peace with himself than to live haunted by an evil conscience!
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They who have reasoned ignorantly, or who have aimed at effecting their personal ends by flattering the popular feeling, have boldly affirmed that 'one man is as good as another;' a maxim that is true in neither nature, revealed morals, nor political theory.
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There is a destiny in war, to which a brave man knows how to submit with the same courage that he faces his foes.
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Should we distrust the man because his manners are not our manners, and that his skin is dark?
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