Man Quotes
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To yield reverence to another, to hold ourselves and our lives at his disposal, is not slavery; often, it is the noblest state in which a man can live in this world.
John Ruskin
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No man can avoid being born average, but no man has to stay average.
Satchel Paige
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The Man who never in his Mind & Thoughts travel'd to Heaven Is No Artist.
William Blake
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A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.
Henry Ward Beecher
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A man is not a different person just because he becomes aware. Oh I know it must seem like metamorphosis when the eyes of a blind man are opened, but he's the same man. We grow, mercifully, and growth is just awareness of more and more.
Elizabeth Goudge
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Can any man be courageous who has the fear of death in him?
Plato
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Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired.
Jonathan Swift
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Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any.
Plato
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No man is disturbed by things, but by his opinion about things.
Epictetus
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Never give up your voice for a man, you fucking guppy.
Catherynne M. Valente
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Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need.
Thomas Aquinas
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The true wisdom of man consists in the knowledge of God the creator and Redeemer.
John Calvin
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Man is a reasoning Animal.
Seneca the Younger
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A single words are cruel burden to man if he doesn't learn not to pay attention on them.
Conn Iggulden
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I’ll find a way. There must be a way. And I’ll take my children from you. The man who loves children! You can have your own. That’s all you really care about
Christina Stead
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Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.
Thomas Carlyle
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The man who can see the future has a date with the woman who can see many possible futures.
Charlie Jane Anders
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There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.
Ezra Pound
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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.
Martin Luther
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And not a man appears to tell their fate.
Homer
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The elements were "seeking" each other in rage and confusion, and in the fury of the conflict boastful man was utterly humiliated, sucked down, drowned.
Elizabeth Goudge
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If a wise man behaves prudently, how can he be overcome by his enemies? Even a single man, by right action, can overcome a host of foes.
Saskya Pandita
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What does reason demand of a man? A very easy thing-to live in accord with his own nature.
Seneca the Younger
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When Nature begins to reveal her open secret to a man, he feels an irresistible longing for her worthiest interpreter, Art.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe