Man Quotes
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The singular man is singular in comparison to other men, but a companion of Heaven. So it is said, the petty man of Heaven is a gentleman among men; the gentleman among men is the petty man of Heaven.
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If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere.
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Where all of the man is what property he owns, it does not take long to annihilate him.
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Only with the ultimate knowledge of all things will man have come to know himself. For things are but the boundaries of man.
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Man is never happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something which he thinks will make him so.
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A man of genius is not a man who sees more than other men do. On the contrary, it is very often found that he is absentminded andobserves much less than other people.... Why is it that the public have such an exaggerated respect for him--after he is dead? The reason is that the man of genius understands the importance of the few things he sees.
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I have been distracted from my duty as a father to some extent, but there is no greater exercise to a man’s talents than the upbringing of his son.
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Two grand slams in a week - man, that's seven or eight ribbies right there.
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Morality has nothing to do with such a man as I am.
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The more man knows of man, the better for the common brotherhood among men.
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The most enthusiastic man in a cause is rarely chosen as the leader.
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The notion that the colonel need be a better man than the private is as confused as the notion that the keystone need be stronger than the coping stone.
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A lie is the abandonment and, as it were, the annihilation of the dignity by man.
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A man does what he can; a woman does what a man cannot.
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A man is as big as the measure of his thinking.
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When a man drinks wine at dinner, he begins to be better pleased with himself.
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We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.
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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.
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I cannot think of permanent enmity between man and man.
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When a man is freed of religion, he has a better chance to live a normal and wholesome life.
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You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
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It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.
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A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
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The true measure of a man is how he behaves when death is close.
