Man Quotes
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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.
Oscar Wilde
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A man of the utmost insignificance.
George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
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...self-consciousness is a man's worst enemy.
Nick Hornby
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Let every man feel that he is the architect and builder of his own life, and that he proposes to make a success of it by working.
Heber J. Grant
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I own no property and yet I feel that I am perhaps the richest man in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi
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To need nothing is divine, and the less a man needs the nearer does he approach to divinity.
Socrates
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Providence has so ordained it, that only two women have a true interest in the happiness of a man – his own mother, and the mother of his children. Besides these two legitimate kinds of love, there is nothing between the two creatures except vain excitement, painful and vain delusion.
Octave Feuillet
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By complex ways, by looking deep into the dark well of the human soul, full of filth, somewhere at the very bottom of it Chekhov at last found his faith. And this faith turned out to be faith in man, in the power of human progress. And man became his god.
Yevgeny Zamyatin
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A certain wise man once said that God didn't play dice with the universe, but that man was wrong. Sometimes I think He must even try Russian roulette.
Daina Chaviano
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Only an arrogant man will claim to be independent of everybody else and be self-contained.
Mahatma Gandhi
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A man who is ignorant of foreign languages is also ignorant of his own language.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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It is in the hour of trial that a man finds his true profession.
George Bernard Shaw
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Every man should use his intellect, not as he uses his lamp in the study, only for his own seeing, but as the lighthouse uses its lamps, that those afar off on the seas may see the shining, and learn their way.
Henry Ward Beecher
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The man who first brought ruin upon the Roman people was he who pampered them by largesses and amusements.
Plutarch
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Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.
Robert Frost
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If there's one man in the world who could play two men, it would be Tiger. In my mind, Furyk is going to play.
Gary Player
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That is the best baptism that leaves the man cleanest inside.
Henry Ward Beecher
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No man has ever gone through the crisis of deliberately making Jesus Lord and found Him to be a failure.
Oswald Chambers
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It is a very curious thing about superstition. One would expect that the man who had once seen his morbid dreams were not fulfilled would abandon them for the future; but on the contrary they grow even stronger just as the love of gambling increases in a man who has once lost in a lottery.
Soren Kierkegaard
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Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.
Edward Steichen
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The man had killed the thing he loved, And so he had to die.
Oscar Wilde
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I wanted to create something that was quite edgy and belonged to me. It wasn't about my sexual orientation, because I'm heterosexual. It was saying that appearance is just temporary, and I want to be as strong as a man.
Annie Lennox Eurythmics
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If you want to play your part in the world's affairs, you must refuse to deck yourselves for pleasing man.
Mahatma Gandhi
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A man can make up his mind quickly when he has only a little to make up.
Aristotle