Man Quotes
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What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
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A man becomes the creature of his uniform.
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Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography.
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Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
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Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.
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Nothing can resist the will of man when he knows what is true and wills what is good.
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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
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The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
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If a man sets his heart on benevolence he will be free from evil.
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If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, then man would have only four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man.
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The stage is more beholding to love than the life of man. For as to the stage, love is ever matter of comedies and now and then of tragedies; but in life it doth much mischief, sometimes like a Siren, sometimes like a Fury.
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Pride and excess bring disaster for man.
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Next to creating a life the finest thing a man can do is save one.
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Man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally is either beneath our notice or more than human. Society is something that precedes the individual. Anyone who either cannot lead the common life or is so self-sufficient as not to need to, and therefore does not partake of society, is either a beast or a god.
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The state of mind which enables a man to do work of this kind is akin to that of the religious worshiper or the lover; the daily effort comes from no deliberate intention or program, but straight from the heart.
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I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
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The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.
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A man is not learned until he can read, write and swim.
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Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.
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A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.
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The higher man is distinguished from the lower by his fearlessness and his readiness to challenge misfortune.
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The proud man counts his newspaper clippings, the humble man his blessings.
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After marriage, the other man's wife looks more beautiful.
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Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.
