Man Quotes
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The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.
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The little man is still a man.
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Yet he who grasps the moment's gift, He is the proper man.
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The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.
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In death - no! even in the grave all is not lost. Else there is no immortality for man. Arousing from the most profound slumbers, we break the gossamer web of some dream. Yet in a second afterward, (so frail may that web have been) we remember not that we have dreamed.
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There are things stronger than the strongest man.
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War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
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The surest way to ruin a man who doesn't know how to handle money is to give him some.
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I am kind of a man of mystery. I like not being in the spotlight. I kind of like being in the background. I like to observe a lot of things. Nothing really rattles me so I don’t stress very much about a lot of things. I have that Buddha mentality.
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Painting predicates what man wants to see, and what man ought to see, not what he ordinarily sees.
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It is the peculiarity of grief to bring out the childish side of man.
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A man is as much affected pleasurably or painfully by the image of a thing past or future as by the image of a thing present.
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A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself. Indeed he progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself.
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The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.
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Little boldness is needed to assail the opinions and practices of notoriously wicked men; but to rebuke great and good men for their conduct, and to impeach their discernment, is the highest effort of moral courage.
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I consider it a mark of great prudence in a man to abstain from threats or any contemptuous expressions, for neither of these weaken the enemy, but threats make him more cautious, and the other excites his hatred, and a desire to revenge himself.
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The real lover is the man who can thrill you just by touching your head or smiling into your eyes - or just by staring into space.
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If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.
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For this is the tragedy of man circumstances change, but he does not.
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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.
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To become a man is to be responsible; to be ashamed of miseries that you did not cause.
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Who's to say a blues man can't play rock and roll?
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Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.
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The most enthusiastic man in a cause is rarely chosen as the leader.
