Man Quotes
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There is no man more pusillanimous than I when I am planning a campaign. I purposely exaggerate all the dangers and all the calamities that the circumstances make possible. I am in a thoroughly painful state of agitation. This does not keep me from looking quite serene in front of my entourage; I am like an unmarried girl laboring with child. Once I have made up my mind, everything is forgotten except what leads to success.
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The virtuous man is driven by responsibility, the non-virtuous man is driven by profit.
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A man on a hiking trip through the Blue Ridge Mountains came to the top of a hill and saw, just below the crest, a small log cabin. Its aged owner was sitting in front of the door, smoking a corncob pipe, and when the traveler drew close enough he asked the old man patronizingly: "Lived here all your life?" "Nope," the old mountaineer replied patiently. "Not yet."
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I don't think a man who is fifteen years younger than me should tell me he is proud of me unless he is my sober coach or my time-travel dad.
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A sentimentalist—is a man who sees an absurd value in everything, and doesn't know the market price of any single thing.
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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.
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When the wise man opens his mouth, the beauties of his soul present themselves to the view, like the statues in a temple.
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Nothing degrades a man do more than the allowed stoop so low as to hate someone.
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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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Nobody knows anything, but I, knowing nothing, am the smartest man in the world.
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There is no such flatterer as is a man's self.
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Most of man's trouble comes from his inability to be still.
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Only an arrogant man will claim to be independent of everybody else and be self-contained.
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How many years must a man do nothing, before he can at all know what is to be done and how to do it!
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Let a man in a garret but burn with enough intensity and he will set fire to the world.
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Just as with the man in the fairy tale who turned whatever he touched into gold, with me everything is turned into newspaper clamor.
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Numbers have a way of taking a man by the hand and leading him down the path of reason.
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No man is able to make progress when he is wavering between opposite things.
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The scholar gains every day; the man of Tao loses every day.
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That is the best baptism that leaves the man cleanest inside.
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Of course, it wasn't my fault. I didn't shoot the man. But he was a civilian, and I ask myself, 'What was his fault?'
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Great is the issue at stake, greater than appears, whether a man is to be good or bad. And what will any one be profited if, under the influence of money or power, he neglect justice and virtue?
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The man who does not wish to be one of the mass only needs to cease to be easy on himself.
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Many a man can save himself if he admits he's done wrong and takes his punishment.
