Many men and women spend their lives in 20 unsuccessful attempts to spin the flax God sends them upon a wheel they can never use. J. G. Holland.
Many men attain a knowledge of what is perfect, and of their own insufficiency, and go on doing things by halves to the end of their days. Goethe.
Many men fancy that what they experience they also understand. Goethe.
Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing. Alex. Pope.
Many men, in all ages, have triumphed over death, and led it captive; converting its physical victory into a moral victory for themselves, into a zeal and immortal consecration for all that their past life had achieved. Carlyle.
Many men involve themselves deeper in temptations 25 by being too solicitous to decline them. Thomas à Kempis.
Many men know how to flatter; few men know how to praise. Wendell Phillips.
Many men love in themselves what they hate in others. Benzel Sternan.
Many men spend their lives in gazing at their own shadows, and so dwindle away into shadows thereof. Hare.
Many of our troubles are God dragging us, and they would end if we would stand upon our feet, and go whither He would have us. Ward Beecher.