Gene Stratton-Porter - Man Quotes

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In the economy of nature nothing is ever lost. I cannot belive that the soul of man shall prove the one exception

Gene Stratton-Porter

We never know the timber of a man's soul until something cuts into him deeply and brings the grain out strong. You've the making of a mighty fine piece of furniture...

Gene Stratton-Porter

Nature can be trusted to work her own miracle in the heart of any man whose daily task keeps him alone among her sights, sounds and silences.

Gene Stratton-Porter

I know men and women. An honourable man is an honourable man, and a liar is a liar; both are born and not made. One cannot change to the other any more than that same old leopard can change its spots. After a man tells a woman the first untruth of that sort, the others come piling thick, fast, and mountain high.

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No one in the whole world knows all a man's bignesses and all his littlenesses as his wife does.

Gene Stratton-Porter

When any man accumulates more than he can earn with his own hands, he begins to enrich himself at the expense of the youth, the sweat, the blood, the joy of his fellow men.

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