Man Quotes
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Any man that walks the mead In bud, or blade, or bloom, may find, According as his humors lead, A meaning suited to his mind.
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Inside every man, there's a yearning to express your wild side.
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Oh! Single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine thing for our girls!
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No man need stay the way he is.
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Man is man because he is free to operate within a framework of his destiny. He is free to deliberate, to make decisions, and to choose between alternatives. He is distinguished from animals by his freedom to do evil or to do good and to walk the high road of beauty or tread the low road of ugly degeneracy.
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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.
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I live a pretty sedentary life, usually. I'm not an action man at all.
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Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The Grace of God is glue.
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No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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A man must indeed be a hero to appear such in the eyes of his valet.
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Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
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To adorn our characters by the charm of an amiable nature shows at once a lover of beauty and a lover of man.
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The man that does not fear punishment, little regards crime.
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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.
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You see when a man knows he will be old, he is afraid: when he becomes old, he cares for nothing - love does not count, only comfort; honor does not count, only cheating for a niche.
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A man nearly sixty is just as ready to suppose himself fascinating as a man of twenty.
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A man dies still if he has done nothing, as one who has done much.
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He is a man whom it is impossible to please, because he is never pleased with himself.
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The virtue of a free man appears equally great in refusing to face difficulties as in overcoming them.
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To say that gender is performative is a little different because for something to be performative means that it produces a series of effects. We act and walk and speak and talk in ways that consolidate an impression of being a man or being a woman.
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Whenever a man does the best he can, then that is all he can do.
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“Man has to fight for what he wants, any way he can.”
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I love and am loved by a better man than he.
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As a young man, even if I was going to see a play or a film by myself, I didn't feel like I was alone. There was something that was unfolding up there that brought me into it. And I recognised that. For those two hours, it made me feel like I belonged to something really good.
