Man Quotes
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Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, the necessity of being the man you are and not another. You are free to be that man, but not another.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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To expect a man to retain everything that he has ever read is like expecting him to carry about in his body everything that he has ever eaten.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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“Though sometimes it seems to mention a man who simply acts like a decent human being gets undue praise”
Gabrielle Burton
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For this is the tragedy of man circumstances change, but he does not.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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Man is that name of power which rises above them all, and gives to every one the right to be that which God meant he should be.
Henry Ward Beecher
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The woman sees, I suppose, and the man does not.
Alex Colville
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In death - no! even in the grave all is not lost. Else there is no immortality for man. Arousing from the most profound slumbers, we break the gossamer web of some dream. Yet in a second afterward, (so frail may that web have been) we remember not that we have dreamed.
Edgar Allan Poe
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I'm convinced that, in the end, art is not for the artist but for their fellow man.
George Rickey
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Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed.
John Locke Nazareth
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Yes! He knew how she would love. He had not loved her without gaining that instinctive knowledge of what capabilities were in her. Her soul would walk in glorious sunlight if any man was worthy, by his power of loving, to win back her love.
Elizabeth Gaskell
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No man can lose what he never had.
Izaak Walton
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Nothing tells more about the character of a man than the things he makes fun of.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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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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The only man who knows just what he thinks at the present moment is the man who hasn't done any new thinking in the past ten years.
Susan Glaspell
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Man is at his best when complimented by the influence of a good woman.
Ezra Taft Benson
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Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.
Honore de Balzac
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Love is bullshit and weird and stupid, but shit, man, if you have love, everybody should leave you alone and let you keep it for as long as you can.
Craig Lancaster
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The sun,--the bright sun, that brings back, not light alone, but new life, and hope, and freshness to man--burst upon the crowded city in clear and radiant glory. Through costly-coloured glass and paper-mended window, through cathedral dome and rotten crevice, it shed its equal ray.
Charles Dickens
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Everything comes to the man who won't wait.
Ada Leverson
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I don't think there is anything particularly wrong in hitting a woman, though I don't recommend you do it the same way that you hit a man.
Sean Connery
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You have heard me say, a great many times, that there is not that man or woman in this Church, and there never was and never will be, who turn up their noses at the counsel that is given them from the First Presidency, but who, unless they repent of and refrain from such conduct will eventually go out of the Church and go to hell, every one of them...
Brigham Young
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Fanny! You are killing me!" "No man dies of love but on the stage, Mr. Crawford.
Jane Austen
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I prefer the man who calls his nonsense a mystery to him who who pretends it is a weighed, measured, analyzed fact.
George Bernard Shaw
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Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.
Arthur Helps