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There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.
Man hath a weary pilgrimage, As through the word he wends; On every stage, from youth to age, Still discontent attends.
Only out of stir and change is born new salvation. To deny that is to deny belief in man, to turn our backs on courage!
The proper work of man, the grand drift of human life, is to follow reason, that noble spark kindled in us from heaven.
If one man tells you to murder, you get a jail cell - if another man tells you to murder, you get medals and a pension.
O men with sisters dear, O men with mothers and wives, It is not linen you 're wearing out, But human creatures' lives!
I always feel a rise in my scalp or in the backs of my wrists when something is special, whether it be a song or a man.
Morality, like numinous awe, is a jump; in it, man goes beyond anything that can be 'given' in the facts of experience.
Three things never anger or you'll not live for long; A wolf with cubs, A man with power, And a woman's sense of wrong.
I couldn't turn down The Rolling Stones. A real man would never turn down the chance of working with legends like them.
Man the law-giver will have to pay a dreadful penalty for the degradation he has imposed upon the so called weaker sex.
My poems are political in the deeper sense of the word. Political means to live in your time, to be a man of your time.
The cities are the principal home and seat of the human group. They are the coral colony for Man, the collective being.
Want of will causes paralysis of every faculty. In spiritual things man is utterly unable because resolvedly unwilling.
A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.
It is not the fact that a man has riches which keeps him from the kingdom of heaven, but the fact that riches have him.
It is my contention that no other invention of man has brought greater chaos to humanity than the practice of religion.
I never was the front man in any bands I played in when I was in college, and I always learned music by myself at home.
Time is of the essence, The crowd and players Are the same age always, But the man in the stand, Is older every season.
If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh.
Some men think that the globe is a sponge that God puts into their hands to squeeze for their own garden or flower-pot.
Censors are dead men set up to judge between life and death. For no live, sunny man would be a censor, he'd just laugh.
I have experienced a lot in my life - some good, some bad - but all of those experiences make up the man I am today.
If you feed a man a meal, you only feed him for a day-but if you teach a man to grow food, you feed him for a lifetime.
No man is broken because bad things happen to him. He’s broken because he doesn’t keep going after those things happen.
We presuppose two things: that there is yet to be learned infinitely more than is now known, and that man can learn it.
As the king governs by his executive, so Reason in man must rule the mere appetites by means of the 'spirited element.'
It is hypocrisy for man to make any other use of his religion, or the credit of it, than to sanctify and save his soul.
Freedom is not merely a word or an abstract theory, but the most effective instrument for advancing the welfare of man.
Spintharus, speaking in commendation of Epaminondas, says he scarce ever met with any man who knew more and spoke less.
[Imeachable conduct is] misconduct by public men, or, in other words, from the abuse or violation of some public trust.
If she could find a man who could feel and laugh as well as desire, she might even think about thinking about marriage.
In all pursuits men complain of failure when they have not attained the measure of success they proposed to themselves.
I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.
A man's style should be like his dress. It should be as unobtrusive and should attract as little attention as possible.
Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.
Now it is evident that the form of government is best in which every man, whoever he is, can act best and live happily.
Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
I'm a very lucky man in this chapter of my professional life, 'cause I get to do jobs with wildly different skill sets.
In a vain man, the smallest spark may kindle into the greatest flame, because the materials are always prepared for it.
Moses was a forgotten man in the wilderness, But God had Moses right where he wanted him and met him at a burning bush.
Speaking as a minister it is my strong feeling that no man has a right to preach to a crowd that he has not prayed for.
She was seriously staring. Which was what you did when you got a gander at a man who is hung like a Louisville Slugger.
Great men have been characterized by the greatness of their mistakes as well as by the greatness of their achievements.
The man who holds that every human right is secondary to his profit must now give way to the advocate of human welfare.
There is a property in the horizon which no man has, but he whose eyes can integrate all the parts,--that is, the poet.
The man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men are.
The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.
Hey, man. Where have you been? (Dev) Out and about. You? (Talon) (Dev gave him a wicked grin.) Mostly in and out. (Dev)
Men in great place are thrice servants: servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business.