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| Nothing more clearly shows how little God esteems his gift to men of wealth, money, position and other worldly goods, than the way he distributes these, and the sort of men who are most amply provided with them. |
| Jean de la Bruyere |
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| Of all the barbarous middle ages, that which is most barbarous is the middle age of man! it is - I really scarce know what; but when we hover between fool and sage, and don't know justly what we would be at - a period something like a printed page, b |
| Lord Byron |
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| Old men like to give good advice in order to console themselves for not being any longer able to set bad examples |
| François de la Rochefoucauld |
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| People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery. |
| Graham Greene |
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| Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation. |
| Edmund Burke |
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| Rob the average man of his life-illusion and you rob him also of his happiness |
| Henrik Ibsen |
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See what a man does.
Mark his motives.
Examine in which things he rests.
How can a man conceal his character?
How can a man conceal his character? |
| Confucius |
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| So few men are really worth knowing, that it seems a shameful waste to let an anthropoid prejudice stand in the way of free association with one who is |
| Henry Louis Mencken |
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| So I commended enjoyment, because a man has nothing better under the sun than to eat, drink and be merry |
| Bible |
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| So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend. |
| Robert Louis Stevenson |
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| Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudices, eradicate virtue, honesty, and religion |
| Jonathan Swift |
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| That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent |
| Aldous Huxley |
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| That was one of the things that worried me - to be raised to the position of a semi-god - because then you are no longer a human being. I wanted to be known as Mandela, a man with weaknesses, some of which are fundamental, and a man who is committed, |
| Nelson Mandela |
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| The average man's judgment is so poor, he runs a risk every time he uses it |
| Edgar Watson Howe |
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| The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late |
| Daniel Defoe |
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| The bird has an honor that man does not have. Man lives in the traps of his abdicated laws and traditions; but the birds live according to the natural law of God who causes the earth to turn around the sun. |
| Kahlil Gibran |
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| The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught. |
| Henry Louis Mencken |
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