Man Quotes
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Cursed in earth and subdued by death, man found himself beset by time, and his instincts put to the test. Only then, he realized that with love he could survive, and that for a certain purpose he would toil. For those whom my love can not immune from death, are dedicated these paintings, in the hope they may express in drawing the reality of a resonant mind .”
Ala Bashir -
But what is opportunity to the man who can't use it?
George Eliot
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Man first creates the universe in his image, and then turns round to say that God created man in his image... As Voltaire quipped, if God created man in his image, man has returned the compliment.
Neel Burton -
Rebukes are easy from our betters, From men of quality and letters; But when low dunces will affront, What man alive can stand the brunt?
Jonathan Swift -
All rising to great place is by a winding stair; and if there be factions, it is good to side a man's self whilst he is in the rising, and to balance himself when he is placed.
John Locke Nazareth -
No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another.
George Bernard Shaw -
A man who runs away from death will run into death.
Chenjerai Hove -
Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.
Thomas Carlyle
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Every man and woman who has talent and hides it will be called a slothful servant. Improve day by day upon the capital you have. In proportion as we are capacitated to receive, so it is our duty to do.
Brigham Young -
It covetousness is a sin against God, just as all mortal sins, in as much as man condemns things eternal for the sake of temporal things.
Thomas Aquinas -
The earth is yet the place of the domicile of man and all the offspring of the first man.
Joseph Franklin Rutherford -
The wisest man is generally he who thinks himself the least so.
Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux -
Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw -
He was a wonderful man. And when a man is that special, you know it sooner than you think possible. You recognize it instinctively, and you're certain that no matter what happens, there will never be another one like him.
Nicholas Sparks
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I consider myself a man of the world; I connect very strongly with Nigeria, but I see that the work exists all over the world, and I will go where the work is.
Nonso Anozie -
It is not shameful for a man to succumb to pain and it is shameful to succumb to pleasure.
Blaise Pascal -
The style is the man himself.
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon -
A man can be a hero in any profession.
Walt Whitman -
Alas! it is not the child but the boy that generally survives in the man.
Arthur Helps -
For without invention, no one was ever a great man in his own trade.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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I have tried sedulously not to laugh at the acts of man, nor to lament them, nor to detest them, but to understand them.
Baruch Spinoza -
Being a man with a conscience I simply felt that I had to do something - anything! - about the world we live in.
Varg Vikernes Burzum -
[On Peter III:] He did not have a bad heart; but a weak man usually has not.
Catherine the Great -
A Boston man is the east wind made flesh.
Thomas Gold Appleton