Cunning Man Quotes

• Don't think so much of your own Cunning, as to forget other Men's; a Cunning Man is overmatched by a cunning Man and a Half.

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  Benjamin Franklin

  Men   Thinking   Cunning Man  

  Benjamin Franklin (1987). “Poor Richard's Almanack: Being the Choicest Morsels of Wisdom, Written During the Years of the Almanack's Publication”, p.65, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• It is sometimes necessary to play the fool to avoid being deceived by cunning men.

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  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men   Play   Cunning Man  

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• Recognize the cunning man not by the corpses he pays homage to but by the living writers he conspires against with the most shameful weapon, Silence, or the briefest review.

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  Edward Dahlberg

  Men   Silence   Criticism  

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• Self-love is more cunning than the most cunning man in the world.

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  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love Is   Men   Self  

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• Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.

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  Francis Bacon

  Wise   Peace   Hurt  

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Cunning'

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• There is a cunning which we in England call the rning of the cat in the pan.

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  Francis Bacon

  Cat   England   Deceit  

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• People kill what they fear. They burned, and drowned, and hanged those they saw as witches, the devil's servants: the wise women and the cunning men, the unfortunate, the lost and the strange

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  Neil Gaiman

  Wise   Fear   Men  

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• A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

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  Francis Bacon

  Inspirational   Success   Graduation  

  1625 Essays, no.52,'Of Ceremonies and Respects'.

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• Do you come to a philosopher as to a cunning man, to learn something by magic or witchcraft, beyond what can be known by common prudence and discretion?

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  David Hume

  Philosophical   Men   Magic  

  David Hume (1817). “Philosophical Essays: On Morals, Literature, and Politics”, p.181

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• It is a good point of cunning for a man to shape the answer he would have in his own words and propositions, for it makes the other party stick the less.

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  Francis Bacon

  Party   Men   Shapes  

  Francis Bacon, David Mallet (1740). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, Lord High Chancellor of England ...: With Several Additional Pieces, Never Before Printed in Any Edition of His Works. To which is Prefixed, a New Life of the Author”, p.334

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• It is a pity that, commonly, more care is had--yea, and that among very wise men--to find out rather a cunning man for their horse than a cunning man for their children.

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  Roger Ascham

  Wise   Horse   Children  

  Roger Ascham (1815). “The English Works of Roger Ascham: Preceptor to Queen Elizabeth”, p.206

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• Our spiritual history is the history of God-ventriloquists! The truth is that the voice of God is the voice of cunning Man, the ventriloquist's voice!

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  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Spiritual   Men   Voice  

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• A cunning man overreaches no one half as much as himself.

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  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men   Cunning Man   Half  

  Henry Ward Beecher, Edna Dean Proctor (1858). “Life Thoughts: Gathered from the Extemporaneous Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher”, p.52

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• There is a cunning which we in England call "the turning of the cat" in the pan; which is, when that which a man says to another, he says it as if another had said it to him.

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  Francis Bacon

  Cat   Men   Cunning Man  

  Francis Bacon, David Mallet (1740). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, Lord High Chancellor of England ...: With Several Additional Pieces, Never Before Printed in Any Edition of His Works. To which is Prefixed, a New Life of the Author”, p.334

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• The cunning man steals a horse, the wise man lets him alone.

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  Benjamin Franklin

  Wise   Horse   Men  

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.101, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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