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It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the tr...

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No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.

The argument that someone is a bad man is an inadequate argument for war and certainly an inadequate...

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A man's got two shots for jewelry: a wedding ring and a watch. The watch is a lot easier to get on a...

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And of the sixth day yet remainedThere wanted yet the master work, the endOf all yet done: a creatur...

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In yonder nether world where shall I seekHis bright appearances or footstep trace?For though I fled ...

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Shalt thou give law to God, shalt thou disputeWith Him the points of liberty who madeThee what thou ...

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...So little knowsAny but God alone to value rightThe good before him but perverts best thingsTo wor...

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Man seems to be the only animal whose food soils him, making necessary much washing and shield-like ...

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It seems strange that bears, so fond of all sorts of flesh, running the risks of guns and fires and ...

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Heaven be thanked, we live in such an age when no man dies for love except upon the stage.

A captain of the Navy ought to be a man of strong and well connected sense, with a tolerable good ed...

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Is not the brand of 'double-dealer' stamped on the forehead of every democratic slaveholder? Are not...

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The bad man desires arbitrary power. What moves the evil man is the love of injustice.

I'd love to spend more time on the Isle of Man. I love the anonymity of putting on a boiler suit and...

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Given the fact that I have a family and responsibilities, it's the mark of a man to find the courage...

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The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.

Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to b...

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I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.

The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or...

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It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish an...

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No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like hi...

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Henry liked fun and avoided when he could any solemn or serious matter, for he confused these with s...

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And is usually true of a man of one idea, [Charles] became obsessed.

I remember clearly the deaths of three men. One was the richest man of the century, who, having claw...

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Man has a choice and it's a choice that makes him a man.

And I feel that I am a man. And I feel that a man is a very important thing - maybe more important t...

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The last clear definite function of men—muscles aching to work, minds aching to create beyond the si...

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John SteinbeckThe Grapes of Wrath

The last clear definite function of man—muscles aching to work, minds aching to create beyond the si...

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The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other th...

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A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own...

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To be a human being is to be in a state of tension between your appetites and your dreams, and the s...

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When a man becomes a Christian, he becomes industrious, trustworthy and prosperous. Now, if that man...

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Is it not hard that even those who are with us should be against us - that a man's enemies, in some ...

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To explain this a little further: Only the soul and the body are the natural constituent parts of me...

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John WesleyHow To Pray: The Best of John Wesley on Prayer

We act as if that being of a man or that being of a woman is actually an internal reality or somethi...

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I think, increasingly, despite what we are being told is an ever more open world of communication, t...

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Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.

I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day h...

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Me, I'm dishonest, and you can always trust a dishonest man to be dishonest. Honestly, it's the hone...

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The Supreme Court ruled that disabled golfer Casey Martin has a legal right to ride in a golf cart b...

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The thing that gave me the most pain in life, psychologically, and it gave me tremendous pain psycho...

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Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.

Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together Let none but Him who rules t...

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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from...

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I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.

Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who h...

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To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of ...

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To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, ...

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Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot...

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Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if na...

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Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it courage which ...

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A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.

The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.

The development of the telescope, together with increased knowledge of things, brought men to see th...

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It is conceded by all that man is the very highest type of all living creatures on the earth. His in...

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The earth is yet the place of the domicile of man and all the offspring of the first man.

It is only when a man tames his own demons that he becomes the king of himself if not of the world.

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Joseph CampbellThe Hero With a Thousand Faces

The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depen...

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This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it but man will never on hi...

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The mind of man is capable of anything.

There werethings, he said mournfully, that perhaps could never be told, only hehad lived so much alo...

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Never test another man by your own weakness.

The spirit gone, man is garbage.

The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.

Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.

God himself, finding he was in the midst of spirits and glory, because he was more intelligent, saw ...

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Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always discontented with what he ha...

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Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.

Virginity is such a personal thing. You can't judge anyone on it. A lot of young women feel they wan...

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I was not popular in school, and I was definitely not a ladies' man. And I had a very painful adoles...

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The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploratio...

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Next time we will look at this from a much more basic point of view and one antedating all zoology, ...

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José Ortega y GassetAn Interpretation of Universal History

Man is a fantastic animal; he was born of fantasy, he is the son of "the mad woman of the house." An...

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No one ceases to be a man, no one forfeits his rights to civilization merely by being more or less u...

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The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healt...

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Why, you are a man of heart!""Sometimes," replied Phileas Fogg, quietly. "When I have the time.

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Jules VerneAround the World in Eighty Days

Bisexuality means I am free and I am as likely to want to love a woman as I am likely to want to lov...

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He's grown into quite the young man since you took him in.""You say that like being a man's a good t...

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I feel that World Cup cricket should be played like football in which all the 160 countries take par...

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Natural science will in time incorporate into itself the science of man, just as the science of man ...

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On the basis of the eternal will of God we have to think of EVERY HUMAN BEING, even the oddest, most...

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Thus in this oneness Jesus Christ is the Mediator, the Reconciler, between God and man. Thus He come...

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God's high freedom in Jesus Christ is His freedom for LOVE. The divine capacity which operates and e...

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Karl BarthThe Humanity of God

God wants man to be His creature. Furthermore, He wants him to be His PARTNER. There is a causa Dei ...

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He wants in His freedom actually not to be without man but WITH him and in the same freedom not agai...

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I began the study of medicine, impelled by a desire for knowledge of facts and of man. The resolutio...

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There were nineteen years between my grandparents, and I was in a relationship for five years from t...

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At least through most of the 1960s, I basically lived in a man's world, hardly speaking to a woman a...

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Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not ...

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I had many teachers that were great, positive role models and taught me to be a good person and stan...

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So I know how I watch movies which is on my laptop, man. And that's how I suspect a lot of people do...

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Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your know...

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We would all like to vote for the best man but he is never a candidate.

These things were happening in my life where I was like, 'Man, I wish my pops was here to see this.'...

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There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?