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The superior man is universally minded and no partisan. The inferior man is a partisan and not universal.
...we understand only the individual's capacity to make sacrifices for the community, for his fellow men.
The man who, in a fit of melancholy, kills himself today, would have wished to live had he waited a week.
A man with his heart in his profession imagines and finds resources where the worthless and lazy despair.
Dress not thy thoughts in too fine a raiment. And be not a man of superfluous words or superfluous deeds.
God has so made the mind of man that a peculiar deliciousness resides in the fruits of personal industry.
Most American diets, even bad ones, provide more than enough calcium for bone health, especially for men.
Un homme n'est rien d'autre qu'une se rie d'entreprises. A man is no other than a series of undertakings.
The three most destructive words that every man receives when he's a boy is when he's told to 'be a man'.
Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.
If anybody ever dares to compare Bob Dole to Clinton, then they're comparing a criminal to an honest man.
I want a man who knows something about himself. And is appalled. And has to forgive himself to get along.
Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.
How can a man marry wisely in his twenties? The girl he's going to wind up wanting hasn't even been born.
A free man thinks of nothing less than of death; and his wisdom is a meditation not on death but on life.
The kind of man who demands that government enforce his ideas is always the kind whose ideas are idiotic.
Men remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance.
One man's life or death were but a small price to pay for the acquirement of the knowledge which I sought
Man is by his constitution a religious animal; atheism is against not only our reason, but our instincts.
A man makes no noise over a good deed, but passes on to another as a vine to bear grapes again in season.
America was named after a man who discovered no part of the New World. History is like that, very chancy.
...while the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty.
When a man makes a woman his wife it's the highest compliment he can pay her – and usually it's the last.
Let us ease the Roman people of their continual care, who think it long to await the death of an old man.
What each man feared would happen to himself, did not trouble him when he saw that it would ruin another.
Africa gives you the knowledge that man is a small creature, among other creatures, in a large landscape.
The world is full of bright men who know all the right things to say and who say them in the wrong place.
It was obvious that he was a man who marched through life to the rhythms of some drum I would never hear.
There are poems about the internet and about the shipping forecast but very few by women celebrating men.
The most satisfactory definition of man from the scientific point of view is probably Man the Tool-maker.
The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance, and never to keep his word.
Every man should know something of law; if he knows enough to keep out of it, he is a pretty good lawyer.
No doubt solitude is wholesome, but so is abstinence after a surfeit. The true life of man is in society.
Confidence: The feeling that makes one believe a man, even when one knows that one would lie in his place
I have no better way of knowing if a man is for God than if he likes to say the Hail Mary and the Rosary.
After a rest in Edinburgh, where, passing a music-shop, I heard some blind man playing a mazurka of mine.
As long as a man stays alive he can't tell what chances will pop up next. But a dead man signs no checks.
Today is February 14th - St. Valentine's day. Women call it Love day, while men name it as Extortion day.
Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land.
But Opera Man, I go, "Oh, crap! Why didn't I think of that?" Because I could sing fake opera pretty good.
Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.
Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.
Do you remember you shot a seagull? A man came by chance, saw it and destroyed it, just to pass the time.
Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.
A man's pride can be his downfall, and he needs to learn when to turn to others for support and guidance.
In the choice of a horse and a wife a man must please himself ignoring the opinion and advice of friends.
Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.
Prayer is God's plan to supply man's great and continuous need with God's great and continuous abundance.
Not only then has each man his individual relation to God, but each man has his peculiar relation to God.
Monsieur' to a convict is a glass of water to a man dying of thirst at sea; ignominy thirsts for respect.