#ear

Kindness and good nature unite men more effectually and with greater strength than any agreements whatsoever, since thereby the engagements of men's hearts become stronger than the bond and obligation of words. ↗

— Thomas More

#good-nature #heart #kindness #mankind #men

Monsters don’t exist. It’s men you should be afraid of, not monsters. ↗

— Niccolò Ammaniti

#fear #malice #monsters #people #men

Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false. ↗

— Richard Cecil

#attention #beautiful #best #convinced #dwell

These men are worth your tears. You are not worth their merriment. ↗

— Wilfred Owen

#merriment #tears #war #men

It has been said that a lot of women of our generation "grew up to be the men they always wanted to marry ↗

— Merle Shain

#merle-shain #men

There is a kind of gaping admiration that would fain roll Shakespeare and Bacon into one, to have a bigger thing to gape at; and a class of men who cannot edit one author without disparaging all others. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#conflation #editing #exaggeration #francis-bacon #shakespeare

The dead do not need to rise. They are a part of the earth now and the earth can never be conquered. For the earth endureth forever. It will outlive all systems of tyranny. Those who have entered it honorably, and no men ever entered earth more honorably than those who died in Spain, already have achieved immortality. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#on-the-american-dead-in-spain #the-spanish-earth #men

He himself, he realized, had always been most abominably frightened, even at the height of his divine power, a frail god upon a rickety throne, afraid of opening letters, of making decisions, afraid of the instinctive knowledge in the eyes of mules, of the innocent eyes of good men, of the elastic nature of the passions, even of the devotion he had received from some men, and one woman, and dogs. ↗

— Patrick White

#devotion #dogs #fear #gods #innocence

Am I my brothers keeper? Yes I am my brothers keeper! All men are brothers! ↗

— Biblical

#world-harmony #world-peace #men

Don't cry over someone who wouldn't cry over you. ↗

— Lauren Conrad

#heartache #love #sadness #tears #love