Man Quotes
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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.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Mercy begins with a deep awareness of one’s own need for it. Whereas Alinsky first sees injustice in others, the man of mercy first sees sin within himself.
Charles J. Chaput
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Poetry's unnat'ral; no man ever talked poetry 'cept a beadle on boxin' day, or Warren's blackin' or Rowland's oil, or some o' them low fellows; never you let yourself down to talk poetry, my boy.
Charles Dickens
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So long as you believe that man is essentially evil in nature, and a more vicious doctrine was never promulgated, it follows that he is often going to need to have his ears slapped back, and who should do this but the clergy?
Anne Roe
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The worse the man, the better the soldier.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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A man who is a man goes on until he can go no further—and then goes twice as far.
Steve Sheinkin
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God made man, and then said I can do better than that and made woman.
Adela Rogers St. Johns
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The more a man drinketh of the world, the more it intoxicateth.
Francis Bacon
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There is nothing great in the world that does not owe its origin to the creative ability of an individual man.
Adolf Hitler
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Slowly, without taking his eyes from hers, the man in the black coat knelt before her. “I have come for the girl in the window,” he said, and his eyes filled with tears.
Catherynne M. Valente
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On the day when it will be possible for woman to love not in her weakness but in her strength, not to escape herself but to find herself, not to abase herself but to assert herself – on that day love will become for her, as for man, a source of life and not of mortal danger.
Simone de Beauvoir
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Hemingway shot himself. I don't like a man that takes the short way home.
William Faulkner
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It is easier to build a boy than to mend a man.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I think I am a moral man.
Gary Condit
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We go to the grave of a friend saying, "A man is dead," but angels throng about him saying, "A man is born."
Henry Ward Beecher
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The wise man bridges the gap by laying out the path by means of which he can get from where he is to where he wants to go.
J. P. Morgan
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An old man concludeth from his knowing mankind that they know him too, and that maketh him very wary.
George Saville
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A man is a great thing upon the earth and through eternity; but every jot of the greatness of man is unfolded out of woman.
Walt Whitman
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A teacher who is only interested in great talents is like a man who only seeks the company of rich people.
Carl Flesch
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Man who want pretty nurse, must be patient.
Confucius
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Let him submit to me! Only the god of death is so relentless, Death submits to no one—so mortals hate him most of all the gods. Let him bow down to me! I am the greater king, I am the elder-born, I claim—the greater man.
Homer
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I have seen many a bear led by a man: but I never before saw a man led by a bear.
James Boswell
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A man living without conflicts, as if he never lives at all.
Confucius
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“The sum of a man isn't the things he's done, it is the world he leaves behind.”
C Robert Cargill