“ What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine. ”
- Susan Sontag- Copy
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“ To character and success, two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together — humble dependence and manly independence: humble dependence on God, and manly reliance on self. ”
- William Wordsworth- Copy
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“ Women are among the most gracious phenomenons ever to walk the earth. I only sympathize for the many men who consider to be more manly is to be as much not like a woman. ”
- Stuart Nail- Copy
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“ To be meek, patient, tactful, modest, honorable, brave, is not to be either manly or womanly, it is to be humane. ”
- Jane Harrison- Copy
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“ To be womanly is one thing, and one only; it is to be sensitive to man, to be highly endowed with the sex instinct; to be manly is to be sensitive to woman. ”
- Jane Harrison- Copy
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“ When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good, and made by a good workman. ”
- Jean de la Bruyere- Copy
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“ Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority. ”
- Mary Wollstonecraft- Copy
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“ Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart. ”
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow- Copy
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“ It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly. ”
- Virginia Woolf- Copy
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“ Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures. ”
- William Wycherley- Copy
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“ Sooner of later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage. ”
- Thucydides- Copy
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“ The best remedy for a bruised heart is not, as so many people seem to think, repose upon a manly bosom. Much more efficacious are honest work, physical activity, and sudden acquisition of wealth. ”
- Dorothy Sayers- Copy
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“ Having chosen our course, without guile and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in God, and go forward without fear and with manly hearts. ”
- Abraham Lincoln- Copy
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“ There is nothing more to be esteemed than a manly firmness and decision of character. ”
- William Hazlitt- Copy
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“ Faith is the sturdiest, the most manly of the virtues. It lies behind our pluckiest… strivings. It is the virtue of the storm, just as happiness is the virtue of the sunshine. ”
- Ruth Benedict- Copy
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“ Give me the avowed, the erect, the manly foe, bold I can meet, perhaps may turn his blow! But of all plagues, good Heavens, thy wrath can send, save, save, oh save me from the candid friend! ”
- George Canning- Copy
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“ Give up the belief that mind is, even temporarily, compressed within the skull, and you will quickly become more manly or womanly. You will understand yourself and your Maker better than before. ”
- Mary Baker Eddy- Copy
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“ Having thus chosen our course, without guile and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in God, and go forward without fear and with manly hearts. ”
- Abraham Lincoln- Copy
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“ If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself. ”
- Friedrich Nietzsche- Copy
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“ Sooner or later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song.". ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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“ Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive. ”
- Marcus Tullius Cicero- Copy
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“ We were sitting on the floor and, although I knew the script, at that climactic moment we all just jumped backwards. We screamed like girls. Very manly girls though. And I was thinking, 'Oh wow, this could be a very good movie'. ”
- Martin Henderson- Copy
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