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Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together.
All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for themselves and for you.
Every hero mirrors the time and place in which he lives. He must reflect men's innermost hopes and beliefs in a public way.
I couldn't help wondering if that was what God put me on Earth for--to find out how much a man could take without breaking.
Advice!Nobody tells us how to be men. We just are." "That is probably why you make such a bad job of it.- Perrin and Egwene
Don't hit at all if you can help it; don't hit a man if you can possibly avoid it; but if you do hit him, put him to sleep.
Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. Unless he doesn't like sushi, then you also have to teach him to cook.
And most people have a woman in their heart, most men have a woman in their heart and most women have a man in their heart.
Every man's first declaration of love is bathos--the zenith of his passion connoting perhaps the nadir of his intelligence.
We know, Mr. Weller - we, who are men of the world - that a good uniform must work its way with the women, sooner or later.
Blessing: Constructive thought directed toward anyone or condition. You bless a man when you recognize the divinity in him.
A break in the established order is never the work of chance. It is the outcome of a man's resolve to turn life to account.
Look at me, man, look at me and tell me I don't know what I'm about. I'm Conor Larkin. I'm an Irishman and I've had enough.
O gift of God! O perfect day: Whereon shall no man work, but play; Whereon it is enough for me, Not to be doing, but to be!
I'm not someone who usually sends out threats. I warn only once. The day they touch one of my men, the rule of law is over.
There is an old saying: if a man comes home with sand in his cuffs and cockleburs in his pants, don't ask him what he shot.
Every time I look into the mirror, I want to see a man whose mother, sister, wife and daughter are proud to call their own.
I never dreamed of any enormity greater than I have committed. I never knew, and never shall know, a worse man than myself.
Though we take from a covetous man all his treasure, he has yet one jewel left; you cannot bereave him of his covetousness.
When the tongue or the pen is let loose in a frenzy of passion, it is the man, and not the subject, that becomes exhausted.
Man is a marble piece; unlike Michelangelo's masterpieces, man is unconsciously carved and imperfectly shaped by the nature
I love men, not for what unites them, but for what divides them, and I want to know most of all what gnaws at their hearts.
The love of wicked men converts to fear; That fear to hate, and hate turns one or both To worthy danger and deserved death.
It is often in the audacity, in the steadfastness, of the general that the safety and the conservation of his men is found.
A wise man sees the path all must walk and embraces the free will of humankind, even if to watch it unfold causes him pain.
It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.
The high-minded man does not bear grudges, for it is not the mark of a great soul to remember injuries, but to forget them.
For a man's house is his castle, et domus sua cuique tutissimum refugium [and one's home is the safest refuge to everyone].
A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.
He is the rich man, and enjoys the fruit of his riches, who summer and winter forever can find delight in his own thoughts.
It's too easy to criticize a man when he's out of favour, and to make him shoulder the blame for everybody else's mistakes.
Every new source from which man has increased his power on earth has been used to diminish the prospects of his successors.
The worst drivers are women in people carriers, men in white vans and anyone in a baseball cap. That's just about everyone.
What wretched doings come from the ardor of fame; the love of truth alone would never make one man attack another bitterly.
When I became a man, I put away childish things and got more elaborate and expensive childish things from France and Japan.
The first thing out of Fidel Castro's mouth to me, he looked me right in the eye and said, 'You're a man of great courage.'
It is a mark of civilised man that he seeks to understand his traditions, and to criticise them, not to swallow them whole.
In civilization, as in a southern latitude, man degenerates at length, and yields to the incursion of more northern tribes.
A man is not primarily a witness against something. That is only incidental to the fact that he is a witness for something.
A mass of dust, world's momentary slave, Is man, in state of our old Adam made, Soon born to die, soon flourishing to fade.
I hold that Christian grace abounds Where charity is seen; that when We climb to heaven, 'tis on the rounds Of love to men.
Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.
I hold that a man has as much right to spell a word as it is pronounced as he has to pronounce it the way it ain't spelled.
Hard to argue with a woman, period. Only time a man wins with one of them is when the woman is either on TV or dead. (Jack)
Papa wasn't man enough, couldn't stand up to his responsibilities. Instead of taking care of me, he'd rather live lavishly.
The numbers of men in all ages have preferred ease, slumber, and good cheer to liberty, when they have been in competition.
Every time a man puts a new idea across, he faces a dozen men who thought of it before he did. But they only thought of it.
Wrote a science fiction novel about a man who wins an argument with his wife, but it was rejected for being too farfetched.
Socialism is not an alternative to capitalism; it is an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings.
When I've sent young men and women into harm's way, I always understand that that is the last resort, not the first resort.