Man Quotes
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There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.
George Bernard Shaw
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No totalitarians, no wars, no fears, famines or perils of any kind can really break a man's spirit until he breaks it himself by surrendering. Tyranny has many dread powers, but not the power to rule the spirit.
Edgar S. Brightman
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No man can teach the Gospel of Jesus Christ under the inspiration of the living God and with power from on high unless he is living it.
Heber J. Grant
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Man is everywhere a disturbing agent. Wherever he plants his foot, the harmonies of nature are turned to discords.
George Perkins Marsh
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And so she shuddered away from the threat of his enduring love. What did he mean? Had she not the power to daunt him? She would see. It was more daring than became a man to threaten her.
Elizabeth Gaskell
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The scent of Sloth tempts a smug man.
James Boswell
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Every man wants to connect his life with something he thinks eternal.
Andrew Mellon
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I draw no petty social lines. A man to me is a man, wherever I find him.
William Faulkner
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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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I didn't want to send a man to hell on an empty stomach.
Clay Allison
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Man cannot live on the human plane, he must be either above or below it.
Eric Gill
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One man who saw through his own eyes and thought with his own brain. Such men may be rare, they may be unknown, but they move the world.
Gary Cooper
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If you are a woman living, you've been done wrong by a man.
Oprah Winfrey
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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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Adulthood does not exist. Man is an eternal child.
Nelson Rodrigues
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We can really respect a man only if he doesn't always look out for himself.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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What man is, only his history tells.
Wilhelm Dilthey
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God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how.
Henry Ward Beecher
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The way is light and fluid for the man with no preferences.
Lao Tzu
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The girl with a future avoids a man with a past.
Evan Esar
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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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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
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The prouder a man is, the more he thinks he deserves, and the more he thinks he deserves, the less he really does deserve.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Because you are a great lord, you think you are a great genius! . . . Nobility, wealth ... You went to the trouble of being born—nothing more! For the rest—a very ordinary man!
Pierre Beaumarchais