Man Quotes
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The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.
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If you are a woman living, you've been done wrong by a man.
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Man is a god to his fellow-man, if he know his duty.
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John Gotti was an incredible man and I know he would have been impressed by the hundreds of people who turned out to pay their respects.
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Mind the dead man, my dear.
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An enlightened man had but one duty - to seek the way to himself, to reach inner certainty, to grope his way forward, no matter where it led.
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A population may be too crowded, though all be amply supplied with food and raiment. It is not good for a man to be kept perforce at all times in the presence of his species.
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A little in one's own pocket is better than much in another man's purse.
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Why is one man richer than another? Because he is more industrious, more persevering and more sagacious.
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It is a familiar beast to man, and signifies love.
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God became man, granted. The devil became a woman.
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A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man or woman who does it needs a day's sustenance, a night's repose and due leisure, whether they be painter or ploughman.
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Man cannot live on the human plane, he must be either above or below it.
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If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do.
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A wise man ought always to follow the paths beaten by great men, and to imitate those who have been supreme, so that if his ability does not equal theirs, at least it will savor of it. Let him act like the clever archers who, designing to hit the mark which yet appears too far distant, and knowing the limits to which the strength of their bow attains, take aim much higher than the mark, not to reach by their strength or arrow to so great a height, but to be able with the aid of so high an aim to hit the mark they wish to reach.
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The average man. The emergence of the concept.
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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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Earth produces nothing worse than an ungrateful man.
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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.
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What? A great man? I only ever see the ape of his own ideal.
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From the plough to paper, from the wheel to house, from tool handles to sailing ships. Man would have been nothing without trees.
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Quand on voit le style naturel, on est tout e tonne et ravi, car on s'attendait de voir un auteur, et on trouve un homme. When we see a natural style we are quite amazed and delighted, because we expected to see an author and find a man.
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A man in the right, with God on his side, is in the majority, though he be alone, for God is multitudinous above all populations of the earth.
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Look at a man the way he is and he only becomes worse, but look at him as if he were what he could be, then he becomes what he should be.
