Man Quotes
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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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If man were never to fade away... but lingered on forever in the world, how things would lose their power to move us. The most precious thing in life is its uncertainty.
Kenko Yoshida
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The girl with a future avoids a man with a past.
Evan Esar
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No man who is in a hurry is quite civilised.
Ariel Durant
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Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.
Hermann Hesse
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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 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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You don't have a man, you need spaghetti.
Oprah Winfrey
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One man should not be afraid of improving his posessions, lest they be taken away from him, or another deterred by high taxes from starting a new business. Rather, the Prince should be ready to reward men who want to do these things and those who endeavour in any way to increase the prosperity of their city or their state.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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So little goes with the body of a man. So much is left behind.
Carole Maso
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God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.
Ellet J. Waggoner
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A free man, who lives among ignorant people, tries as much as he can to refuse their benefits. .. He who lives under the guidance of reason endeavours as much as possible to repay his fellow's hatred, rage, contempt, etc. with love and nobleness.
Baruch Spinoza
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Man is a god to his fellow-man, if he know his duty.
Caecilius Statius
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A man must rise by his own efforts and walk by faith.
Marvin J. Ashton
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I am giving you examples of the fact that this creature man, who in his own selfish affairs is a coward to the backbone, will fight for an idea like a hero. . . . I tell you, gentlemen, if you can shew a man a piece of what he now calls God's work to do, and what he will later call by many new names, you can make him entirely reckless of the consequences to himself personally.
George Bernard Shaw
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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.
George Bernard Shaw
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A reasonable man needs only to practice moderation to find happiness.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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No man should be allowed to be President who does not understand hogs.
Harry S Truman
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I find it easy to forgive the man who invented a devilish instrument like dynamite, but how can one ever forgive the diabolical mind that invented the Nobel Prize in Literature?
George Bernard Shaw
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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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The world owes nothing to any man, but every man owes something to the world.
Thomas A. Edison
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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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Adulthood does not exist. Man is an eternal child.
Nelson Rodrigues
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This is...self-knowled ge-for a man to know what he knows, and what he does not know.
Socrates