Man Quotes
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Man is not equally moral at all hours, this is well known. If his morality is judged to be the capability for great self-sacrificing resolutions and self-denial (which, when continuous and grown habitual, are called holiness).
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Property should be in a general sense common, but as a general rule private... In well-ordered states, although every man has his own property, some things he will place at the disposal of his friends, while of others he shares the use of them.
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I start where the last man left off.
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The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
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A rogue can generally express himself better than an honest man.
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Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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But I think it is hardly an argument against a man's general strength of character, that he should be apt to be mastered by love. A fine constitution doesn't insure one against small-pox or any other of those inevitable diseases. A man may be very firm in other matters, and yet be under a sort of witchery from a woman.
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When a man resolves to avenge himself, he should first of all tear out the heart from his breast.
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Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.
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Every man should be khan in his own home.
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Love a man, even in his sin, for that love is a likeness of the divine love, and is the summit of love on earth.
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Now, where a man in this church says, 'I don't want but one wife, I will live my religion with one,' he will perhaps be saved in the Celestial kingdom; but when he gets there he will not find himself in possession of any wife at all. He has had a talent that he has hid up. He will come forward and say, 'Here is that which thou gavest me, I have not wasted it, and here is the one talent,' and he will not enjoy it but it will be taken and given to those who have improved the talents they received, and he will find himself without any wife, and he will remain single forever and ever.
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For a woman as for a man, marriage might enormously help or devastatingly hinder the growth of her power to contribute something impersonally valuable to the community in which she lived, but it was not that power, and could not be regarded as an end in itself. Nor, even, were children ends in themselves; it was useless to go on producing human beings merely in order that they, in their sequence, might produce others, and never turn from this business of continuous procreation to the accomplishment of some definite and lasting piece of work.
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Let a man be ne'er so wise, he may be caught with sober lies.
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Man begins by loving love and ends by loving a woman. Woman begins by loving a man and ends by loving love.
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No man at bottom means injustice; it is always for some obscure distorted image of a right that he contends: an obscure image diffracted, exaggerated, in the wonderfulest way by natural dimness and selfishness; getting tenfold more diffracted by exasperation of contest, till at length it become all but irrecognis-able.
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You can tell nothing from a man's appearance, nothing except the depths of your own prejudice.
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A man who wills commands something within himself that renders obedience, or that he believes renders obedience.
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And inasmuch as the great-souled man deserves most, he must be the best of men; for the better a man is the more he deserves, and he that is best deserves most. Therefore the truly great-souled man must be a good man. Indeed greatness in each of the virtues would seem to go with greatness of soul.
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I'm not a big sing-and-dance man.
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Then a man sees that the Kingdom of Heaven is truly within us; and seeing it now in himself, he strives with pure prayer to keep it and strengthen it there.
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There is no better deliverance from the world than through art, and a man can form no surer bond with it.
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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.
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I have far more confidence in the one man who works mentally and bodily at a matter than in the six who merely talk about it.
