Man Quotes
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Only one man ever betrayed my confidence, and that only in a minor matter.
Harry Houdini
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Man uses his intelligence less in the care of his own species than he does in his care of anything else he owns or governs.
Abraham Myerson
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Anyone who can appease a man's conscience can take his freedom away from him.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
Baruch Spinoza
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The man from whom the joys of life have departed is living no more, but should be counted with the dead.
Sophocles
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A man is great not because he hasn't failed; a man is great because failure hasn't stopped him.
Confucius
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A rogue can generally express himself better than an honest man.
G.A. Henty
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I love not man the less, but Nature more.
Lord Byron
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How long your hair has grown. You could strangle a man in it.
Catherynne M. Valente
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When a man resolves to avenge himself, he should first of all tear out the heart from his breast.
Alexandre Dumas
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If a man has not discovered anything so dying is not worth living.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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I think like a man but have the emotions of a woman, and that's really dangerous.
Suzi Quatro
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The hero is the world-man, in whose heart One passion stands for all, the most indulged.
Philip James Bailey
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A man needs to feel a little fear, Tolui, if only to have the pride of conquering it.
Conn Iggulden
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Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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That which distinguishes man from the brute is his power, in dealing with Nature, to milk her laws, and make them give forth their bounty.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.
William Faulkner
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Call no man happy before he dies.
Herodotus
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-Why does a man live? -In order to think about it.
Erich Maria Remarque
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It is by the path of love, which is charity, that God draws near to man, and man to God. But where charity is not found, God cannot dwell. If, then, we possess charity, we possess God, for "God is Charity".
Albertus Magnus
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By god the Buddhist means that from which the universe was born, the unborn of the Buddhist scriptures, and by soul that factor in the thing called man which moves towards enlightenment. Why need more be said of it, at any rate those who are not content with scholarship, but strive to attain that same enlightenment?
Christmas Humphreys
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As an elderly man, I have remained estranged from the society here.
Albert Einstein
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How heavy is the toll of sins and wrong that wealth, power and prestige exact from man.
Mahatma Gandhi
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A man is best known, understood, measured, even valued, not by his settled conclusions, but by the dilemmas he keeps. They are the best markers of fleeting truth on the perverse road of time.
George Zebrowski