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All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.
How sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself! Supreme selfishness is inculcated upon him as his only duty.
Those old stories of visions and dreams guiding men have their truth; we are saved by making the future present to ourselves.
A single seed of fact will produce in a season or two a harvest of calumnies; but sensible men will pay no attention to them.
Jenks squinted at me, and when Trent nodded, the pixy gestured sourly to Bis to get on with it. A four inch man ruled us all.
If a man wants to read good books, he must make a point of avoiding bad ones; for life is short, and time and energy limited.
If you want my views of history, there's something you should know. The three men I admire the most are Curly, Larry, and Mo.
If you told me tomorrow that I couldn't act anymore, it wouldn't bother me. I have only one wish: to meet the man of my life.
The gentleman is generous and treats all men as his equals, especially those whom he feels to be inferior in rank and wealth.
To understand this for sense it is not required that a man should be a geometrician or a logician, but that he should be mad.
For Hades is mighty in calling men to account below the earth, and with a mind that records in tablets he surveys all things.
Though in the order of nature angels rank above men, yet, by scale of justice, good men are of greater value than bad angels.
With a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you; with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner.
I grow more and more suspicious of the political powers that take men away from their work and set them shooting one another.
I have ever been prone to seek adventure and to investigate and experiment where wiser men would have left well enough alone.
All ethics so far evolved rest upon a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts.
I'm at a loss because I am in love with a man who is standing before me with no memories of me at all. (Time Traveler's Wife)
It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.
Celebrity? Oh man, I just thought it was a ride that was going to last forever and when it stopped, I didn't know what to do.
The fact is, the king was a good deal more than a king, he was a man; and when a man is a man, you can't knock it out of him.
Conscience, that boon companion who sets a man free under the strong breastplate of innocence, that bids him on and fear not.
But I am a just man, even to my enemy - and I will acknowledge, beforehand, that they are cleverer brains than I thought them
We honor the rich because they have externally the freedom, power, and grace which we feel to be proper to man, proper to us.
All that I can say about Owen Hart, is that I hope that I can be, as good a man as him, so that I can see him again, someday.
I'm proud to be Parisian, proud to be a BANLIEUSARD. Which means a man from the suburbs, from the streets, from the outskirt.
I always kind of thought I want to be a good person, I want to be right to my fellow men and love them like were supposed to.
The introduction of so powerful an agent as steam [to a carriage on wheels] will make a great change in the situation of man.
Stonehenge was built possibly by the Minoans. It presents one of man's first attempts to order his view of the outside world.
Never expect justice from a vain man; if he has the negative magnanimity not to disparage you, it is the most you can expect.
No church property is taxed and so the infidel and the atheist and the man without religion are taxed to make up the deficit.
Reasonable men are not reasonable when you're in the bubbles which have characterized capitalism since the beginning of time.
Women must be very gentle with men as they, as well as women, seek to regain the lost wholeness for which they were destined.
They did something once that slurred my speech, and I thought, "Oh, man, you're messing with my brain. It's freaking me out."
No, make me mistress to the man I love; If there be yet another name more free More fond than mistress, make me that to thee!
It is going to be changed to straight P. Diddy. You could call me P. or Diddy, or P. Diddy. I just want something fresh, man.
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
Every man's occupation should be beneficial to his fellow-man as well as profitable to himself. All else is vanity and folly.
He is unworthy of the name of man who is ignorant of the fact that the diagonal of a square is incommensurable with its side.
True faith will always show itself by its fruits . . . I suspect that, with rare exceptions, men die just as they have lived.
Never define your success by somebody else's success. I never looked at another man's grass to tell how green mine should be.
It is truly regrettable that a person will treat a man who is valuable to him well, and a man who is worthless to him poorly.
Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. Authority is for children and servants, yet not without sweetness.
Death to a good man is his release from the imprisonment of this world, and his departure to the enjoyments of another world.
Once, my little sister was walking down the street in her thick black glasses, and a homeless man muttered, Talk nerdy to me.
Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.
A man is as much affected pleasurably or painfully by the image of a thing past or future as by the image of a thing present.
I'm saying with very few exceptions nothing lasts forever, and among those exceptions, no work or thought of man is numbered.
Sweet is the infant's waking smile, And sweet the old man's rest-- But middle age by no fond wile, No soothing calm is blest.
There are truths which some men despise because they have not examined, and which they will not examine because they despise.
I have always served the public to the best of my ability. Why? Because, like every other man, it is to my interest to do so.