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Man is a phase of nature, and only as he is related to nature does he matter, does he have any account whatever above the dust.
She maintained a careful balance by her window, never allowing the men to come too close, never allowing them to stray too far.
Nothing is more disgraceful than that an old man should have nothing to show to prove that he has lived long, except his years.
I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute.
The greatest weakness in the church today is that the servants of God keep looking over their shoulder for the approval of men.
We must have a spirit of power towards the enemy, a spirit of love towards men, and a spirit of self-control towards ourselves.
A little wit and a great deal of ill-nature will furnish a man for satire; but the greatest instance of wit is to commend well.
To be fearless in the Lord does not require us to be great and powerful men, but only to believe in the great and powerful God.
He who cannot see the truth for himself, nor, hearing it from others, store it away in his mind, that man is utterly worthless.
I like to have nice conversations with a man that teach me something, make me mad, make me curious. Then I find him attractive.
A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.
While man can still his body keep Wine or love drug him to sleep, Waking he thanks the Lord that he Has body and its stupidity.
I daresay Freddy might not be a great hand at slaying dragons- but one has not the smallest need of a man who can kill dragons!
The fact is that the average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth.
I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.
...the collective white man had acted like a devil in virtually every contact he had with the world's collective non-white man.
You will eat not to satisfy your palate but your hunger. A self-indulgent man lives to eat; a self-restrained man eats to live.
That of all the floures in the mede, Thanne love I most these floures white and rede, Suche as men callen daysyes in her toune.
When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people.
A man who has not enough originality to think out a new title for his book will be much less capable of giving it new contents.
That's where Dr. [Martin Luther] King is mixed up. His goals should be the solution of the problem of the black man in America.
I'm not a man deeply interested in technology. It eludes me. I confess I don't even have a computer, I don't have a cell phone.
What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
Real fulfillment, for the man who allows absolutely free rein to his desires, and who much dominate everything, lies in hatred.
The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged.
The first step in freeing men from external chains was to emancipate them from the internal chains of false beliefs and ideals.
I am perfectly confident that the man who does not spend hours alone with God will never know the anointing of the Holy Spirit.
It's getting so if a man wants to stand well socially, he can't afford to be seen with either the Democrats or the Republicans.
Nothing is so beneficial to a young author as the advice of a man whose judgment stands constitutionally at the freezing-point.
The higher a man's conception of God, the better will he know Him. And the better he knows God, the nearer will he draw to Him.
There is an equator that runs just under the nose: all that live below the equator are animals; all that live above it are men.
Do you have feelings for this kind man?" "You shouldn't ask her such a question," Frances Catherine said. "But do you, Gillian?
I've never known a man worth his salt who, in the long run, deep down in his heart, didn't appreciate the grind, the discipline
Any culture which can put a man on the Moon is capable of gathering all the nations of the earth in peace, justice and concord.
Sadly, the timing's never been right. There have been men who would have married me but I didn't feel the same, and vice versa.
A writer is a maker, not a man of action: his private life is of no concern to anybody but himself, his family and his friends.
We want men to rule the nation who care more for and love better the nation's welfare than gold and silver, fame or popularity.
It may be laid down as a position which seldom deceives, that when a man cannot bear his own company, there is something wrong.
Men very seldom change, try though we will, beneath the shifts of exterior doctrine, our hearts so often remain what they were.
HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man? DOOLITTLE [unabashed] Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me.
shall I, for fear of feeble man who shall die, hold my peace? Shall I for fear of scoffs and frowns, refrain my tongue? Ah, no!
A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.
All money represents theft… To steal from the rich is a sacred and religious act. While looting, a man to his own self is true.
Pennsylvania, the state that has produced two great men: Benjamin Franklin of Massachusetts, and Albert Gallatin of Switzerland.
I never had a lot of drive, but because I had family responsibilities, I had a lot of tenacity - the tenacity of a drowning man.
I don't know why men like to barbecue so much. Maybe its the only thing they can cook. Or maybe they're just closet pyromaniacs.
True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.
There's some human instinct which makes a man treasure what he is not to make any use of, because everybody does not possess it.
I believe that for peace a man may, even should, do everything in his power. Nothing in this world could rank higher than peace.
Realists are, as a rule, only men in the rut of routine who are incapable of transcending a narrow circle of antiquated notions.