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Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives, and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist.
If a man paints a target on his chest, he should expect that sooner or later someone will loose an arrow on him.
So little trouble do men take in the search after truth; so readily do they accept whatever comes first to hand.
Those authors who appear sometimes to forget they are writers, and remember they are men, will be our favorites.
One man's justice is another's injustice; one man's beauty another's ugliness; one man's wisdom anpther's folly.
Only a fool would try to deprive working men and working women of their right to join the union of their choice.
Man does not drift into goodness...the chance port of an aimless voyage. He must fight ever for his destination.
Men are liars. We'll lie about lying if we have to. I'm an algebra liar. I figure two good lies make a positive.
A song stylist is, like, to take an old folk song like "Delia's Gone" and do a modern white man's version of it.
Labor, therefore, is a duty from which no man living is exempt, without forfeiting his right to his daily bread.
Chance and change are busy ever;Man decays, and ages move;But His mercy waneth never;God is wisdom, God is love.
Start with the man in the mirror. Start with yourself. Don't be looking at all the other things. Start with you.
A day will come in which men will look upon an animal's murder the same way they look today upon a man's murder.
Is man’s civilization only a wrappage, through which the savage nature of him can still burst, infernal as ever?
Old man's gotta be the old man. Fish has got to be the fish. Gotta be who you are in this world, no matter what.
By the anxieties and worries of this life Satan tries to dull man's heart and make a dwelling for himself there.
Vions are born in the soul of a man or woman who is consumed with the tension between what is and what could be.
A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.
If a woman feels anchored to a man's plans, she may start to resent him for the fun she's worried she's missing.
To sanctify God is to reverence Him in our hearts, and to represent Him in the glory of His holiness before men.
There's a sort of rage a man feels when he's been deceived where he most trusted. It compares to no other anger.
I believe that if a man wanted to walk on water, and was prepared to give up everything in life, he could do it.
Anybody can be a halfway man, but the one who rises above this class is the one who keeps everlastingly pushing.
I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.
Tom [McCarthy] said to me, "Buddy, you got an Oscar nomination through that haircut! That's the real feat, man."
Good God, man, what is that smell?" He eyed with disgust the doctor's filthy cloak. "Life," answered the doctor.
Man is not an end but a beginning. We are at the beginning of the second week. We are children of the eighth day
What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?
Civilization has made man, if not always more bloodthirsty, at least more viciously, more horribly bloodthirsty.
It's not what enters men's mouth that is evil," said the alchemist. It's what comes out of their mouths that is.
Lamentation is the only musician that always, like a screech-owl, alights and sits on the roof of any angry man.
There is no point in asking a man a question until you have established whether he has any reason to lie to you.
It is compassion rather than the principle of justice which can guard us against being unjust to our fellow men.
If any man should ask me what is the first, second, and third part of being a Christian, I must answer 'Action!'
The fight isn't over until you win it, Fitz. That's all you have to remember. No matter what the other man says.
To the free man, the country is the collection of individuals who compose it, not something over and above them.
A man who sits under a tree and dreams makes more journey than a man who goes around the world without dreaming!
Men read maps better than women because only men can understand the concept of an inch equaling a hundred miles.
This is still a young man's game, so we have to stay young. Music allows you to do that, especially rock'n'roll.
So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.
It is the evil in man that makes democracy necessary, and man's belief in justice that makes democracy possible.
The perfect man uses his mind as a mirror. It grasps nothing. It regrets nothing. It receives but does not keep.
Being a man with a conscience I simply felt that I had to do something - anything! - about the world we live in.
Man's great power of thinking, remembering, and communicating are responsible for the evolution of civilization.
All athletes, without fail, are potentially great and good. A great athlete is a little man tirelessly inspired.
Men, even the elect, have too many infirmities to come to Christ without help from heaven; inviting will not do.
Go ahead and gamble a lie. A person who will not tell you seven lies within a hundred yards is useless as a man.
You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger... Let a man overcome anger by love.
Love is a volcano, the crater of which no wise man will approach too nearly, lest ... he should be swallowed up.