Man Quotes
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Neither man nor nation can exist without a sublime idea.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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The man who is master of himself drinks gravely and wisely.
Confucius
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Every man knows the smell of his own fart.
Confucius
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Not to sink under being man and wife, But get some color and music out of life?
Robert Frost
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Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.
Erica Jong
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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
Anthony Trollope
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A man may be ungrateful, but the human race is not so.
John Milton
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I say, Watson,’ he whispered, ‘would you be afraid to sleep in the same room as a lunatic, a man with softening of the brain, an idiot whose mind has lost its grip?’ ‘Not in the least,’ I answered in astonishment. ‘Ah, that’s lucky,’ he said, and not another word would he utter that night.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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As the strong man exults in his physical ability, delighting in such exercises as call his muscles into action, so glories the analyst in that moral activity which disentangles.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Man is too quick at forming conclusions.
Edward E. Barnard
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Although man is not armed by nature nor is naturally swiftest in flight, yet he has something better by far—reason. For by the possession of this function he exceeds the beasts to such a degree that he subdues. … You see, therefore, how much the gift of reason surpasses mere physical equipment.
Adelard of Bath
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A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.
Emily Bronte
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The good man is he for whom, because he is virtuous, the things that are absolutely good are good; it is also plain that his use of these goods must be virtuous and in the absolute sense good.
Aristotle
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An angry man can only get so far until he reconciles the way he thinks.
Don Henley The Eagles
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What can be said about a man who is interested in nothing but his painting? It's a pity if a man can only interest himself in one thing. But I can't do any thing else. I have only one interest.
Claude Monet
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Jesus remains unshaken as the practical man; and we stand exposed as the fools, the blunderers, the unpractical visionaries.
George Bernard Shaw
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As a great man's influence never ends, so also there is not definite finality, no end, to a great survey; it runs along for centuries, ever responsive to the strain of the increasing needs of a growing population and an enlarging domain.
Cleveland Abbe
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A successful surgeon should be a man who, when asked to name the three best surgeons in the world, would have difficulty deciding on the other two.
Denton Cooley
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Marriage is an indissoluble state of life wherein a man and a woman agree to give each other power over their bodies for the begetting, birth, and upbringing of offspring.
Vincent McNabb
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One cannot always be a hero, but one can always be a man.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Every man has it's price, but it's almost never the gold
Conn Iggulden
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We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.
Aristotle
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Every man has his folly, but the greatest folly of all … is not to have one.
Nikos Kazantzakis
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If we have our own why of life, we shall get along with almost any how. Man does not strive for pleasure; only the Englishman does.
Friedrich Nietzsche