Man Quotes
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Ambition is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
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I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive.
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Had you fought like a man, you need not have been hang'd like a dog.
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I do assure you, Sir, that I have no pretension whatever of that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man. I would rather be paid the compliment of being believed sincere. I thank you again and again for the honour you have done me in your proposals, but to accept them is absolutely impossible. My feelings in every respect forbid it. Can I speak plainer? Do not consider me now as an elegant female intending to plague you, but as a rational creature speaking the truth from her heart.
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Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.
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Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
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Today's youth seem finally to have understood that only by freeing woman from her exclusively sexual role can man free himself from his ordained role in the rat-race: that of the rat.
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Man is a biped without feathers.
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Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
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Many a man has been dined out of his religion, and his politics, and his manhood, almost.
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The superior man loves his soul; the inferior man loves his property.
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What if man is not really a scoundrel, man in general, I mean, the whole race of mankind-then all the rest is prejudice, simply artificial terrors and there are no barriers and it's all as it should be.
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If you are able to explain suffering, a man once told him, you weren't really there.
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. . . the man is free, we say, who exists for his own sake and not for another's.
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The man who meets with a failure attributes this failure rather to the ill will of another than to fate.
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Muhammad was a great man, an intrepid soldier; with a handful of men he triumphed at the battle of Bender (sic); a great captain, eloquent, a great man of state, he revived his fatherland and created a new people and a new power in the middle of Arabia.
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Michael Brown happened to be black. Trayvon Martin happened to be black. Eric Garner was a black man. So this pattern continues over and over.
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Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.
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If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it; but if he is angry after he has had time to think upon it, that is sinful. The flame is not wrong, but the coals are.
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I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man.
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There is nothing that we can see on earth which does not either show the wretchedness of man or the mercy of God. One either sees the powerlessness of man without God, or the strength of man with God.
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“Glazed brick, white mortar, and blue roof-tiles do not make a house beautiful; carved rosewood, gold cloth, and clear green jade do not furnish a house with grace; a man of cultivated mind makes a house of mud and wattle beautiful; a woman, even with a pock-marked face; if refined of heart, fills a house with grace. -House of Exile”
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I now see that sorrow, being the supreme emotion of which man is capable, is at once the type and test of all great art.
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No man has ever gone through the crisis of deliberately making Jesus Lord and found Him to be a failure.
