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Unto the man of yearning thought And aspiration, to do nought Is in itself almost an act.
There is no sweeter pleasure than to surprise a man by giving him more than he hopes for.
I had walked into that reading-room a happy, healthy man. I crawled out a decrepit wreck.
I wouldn't kidnap a man for sex - I'm not saying I couldn't use someone to oil the mower.
The generality of men have, like plants, latent properties, which chance brings to light.
Man is a torch borne in the wind; a dream But of a shadow, summed with all his substance.
True art is the intermediary between man's ordinary nature and his higher potentialities.
Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.
Some form of common worship and a common place of worship appear to be a human necessity.
The spinning wheel is not meant to oust a single man or woman from his or her occupation.
A good man will not engage even in a national cause, without examining the justice of it.
Imagination is like the drunk man who lost his watch and must get drunk again to find it.
That however advanced any man may 'be-in' age or piety, he is still in danger of falling.
What should all men know about women? That we are always right and you should just agree.
The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners.
Many a man has been dined out of his religion, and his politics, and his manhood, almost.
There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason.
Nothing is more characteristic of a man than the manner in which he behaves toward fools.
The senses are the organs by which man places himself in connexion with exterior objects.
The covetous man pines in plenty, like Tantalus up to the chin in water, and yet thirsty.
I once buggered a man unconscious. I'm lying, he was already unconscious when I found him
The sentiments of men are known not only by what they receive, but what they reject also.
We measure the excellency of other men by some excellency we conceive to be in ourselves.
Old men are children once again a dream that sways and wavers into the hard light of day.
If a man is right, he can't be too radical; if he is wrong, he can't be too conservative.
When a man is trying to sell you something, don't imagine he is that polite all the time.
Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God.
A man may not transgress the bounds of major morals, but may make errors in minor morals.
It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence, whether a man be behind it or no.
There exists no separation between gods and men; one blends softly casual into the other.
John Wayne was the meanest, nastiest man with the worst attitude that I ever worked with.
What sort of space is that which separates a man from his fellows and makes him solitary?
Most men had rather say a smart thing than do a good one. John P. Kotter, Leading Change.
A man's every action is inevitably conditioned by what surrounds him and by his own body.
He smiles but rarely and watches other men to see when they laugh and then does the same.
In the mind and nature of a man a secret is an ugly thing, like a hidden physical defect.
If men had wings and bore black feathers, Few of them would be clever enough to be crows.
Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavour to understand him.
Nothing can make a man truly great but being truly good, and partaking of God's holiness.
An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.
No man who ever held the office of president would congratulate a friend on obtaining it.
We ought not to schismatize on either men or measures. Principles alone can justify that.
Don't let any man into your cab, your home, or your heart, unless he's a friend of labor.
When the time comes that a man has had his dinner, then the true man comes to the surface
There seems to be a peculiar and particular tie between men who have been drunk together.
With his head in his hands, God thought and thought, Till he thought: I'll make me a man!
A man's reputation is the opinion people have of him; his character is what he really is.
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.
And when a beest is deed, he hath no peyne; But man after his deeth moot wepe and pleyne.
I say that habit's but a long practice, friend, and this becomes men's nature in the end.