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All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act out their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.

– Lawrence of Arabia, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Suppressed introductory chapter, first published 1939, Penguin edition p. 23Rate it:

All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.

– T. E. LawrenceRate it:

All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible. This I did.

– T. E. Lawrence, The Seven Pillars of Wisdom.Rate it:

All Men have a Right to remain in a State of Nature as long as they please: And in case of intolerable Oppression, civil or religious, to leave the Society they belong to and enter into another. When Men enter into Society, it is by voluntary Consent, and they have a Right to demand and insist upon the performance of such Conditions and previous Limitations as form an equitable original Compact.

– Samuel AdamsRate it:

All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties they have an equal right to the impartial protection of the state but it is not true, it is against all the laws of reason and equity, it is against the eternal nature of things, that the indolent man and the laborious man, the spendthrift and the economist, the imprudent and the wise, should obtain and enjoy an equal amount of goods.

– Victor CousinRate it:

All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties; they have an equal right to the impartial protection of the state; but it is not true, it is against all the laws of reason and equity, it is against the eternal nature of things, that the indolent man and the laborious man, the spendthrift and the economist, the imprudent and the wise, should obtain and enjoy an equal amount of goods.

– Victor CousinRate it:

All men have an instinct for conflict at least, all healthy men.

– Hilaire BellocRate it:

All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.

– Edmund BurkeRate it:

All men have need of the gods.

– HomerRate it:

All men have the stars, but they do not mean the same things for different people. For some they are guides, for others, no more than little lights in the sky. But all these are silent. You--you alone have the stars as no one else has them

– Antoine De Saint-ExuperyRate it:

All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.

– James MadisonRate it:

All men kill the thing they hate, too, unless, of course, it kills them first.

– James Grover ThurberRate it:

All men leave the harbour of youth, but only few reach the very far island of wisdom!

– Mehmet Murat ildanRate it:

All men love peace in their armchairs after dinner but they disbelieve the other nations's professions, rightly measuring its sincerity by their own.

– Oscar W. FirkinsRate it:

All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.

– John Quincy AdamsRate it:

All men should have a drop of treason in their veins, if nations are not to go soft like so many sleepy pears.

– Rebecca WestRate it:

All men should strive to learn before they die What they are running from, and to, and why.

– James Grover ThurberRate it:

All men start life as a road-user and only few continue it as a road-creator!

– Mehmet Murat ildanRate it:

All men think all men are mortal but themselves.

– Edward YoungRate it:

All men think that all men are mortal but themselves.

– Edward YoungRate it:

All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.

– PlutarchRate it:

All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.

– Orison Swett MardenRate it:

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.

– Sir Walter ScottRate it:

All men's gains are the fruit of venturing.

– HerodotusRate it:

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