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Keep things at arm's length... If you let anything come too near you want to hold on to it. And there is nothing a man can hold on to.
Breathes there a man, whose judgment clear Can others teach their course to steer, Yet run himself life's mad career Wild as the wave?
Unless a man be born again of water and the Holy Spirit he cannot enter the kingdom of God. No one is excepted, not [even] the infant.
He is truly a man who will not permit himself to be unduly elated when fortune's breeze is favorable, or cast down when it is adverse.
Considering the unforeseen events of this world, we should be taught that no human condition should inspire men with absolute despair.
...the man who passes the sentence should swing the sword." "...a ruler who hides behind paid executioners soon forgets what death is.
Men are just like unlit lamps: in themselves they are no good for anything, but, when lit, they can be handy to have around the house.
[C]ourage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other.
I know no man who has any monopoly upon the wisdom of this universe. It belongs to those who can use it to help themselves and others.
My mind is incapable of conceiving such a thing as a soul. I may be in error, and man may have a soul; but I simply do not believe it.
In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not; the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is sometimes ashamed of.
It will be found, as men grow more tolerant in their instincts, that many uniformities now insisted upon are useless and even harmful.
...the holy men sat in an atmosphere reeking of antiquity, so thick with the dust of ages that you can't see through it -nor can they.
As a nation we began by declaring that all me are created equal. We now practically read it, all men are created equal except Negroes.
Man is the weak being who, in spite of all his self-importance and pride of wealth and capital, is vanquished by the smallest microbe.
I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible.
The mere imparting of information is not education. Above all things, the effort must result in making a man think and do for himself.
Darling girl, blinded by foolish thoughts of love. How to tell her that the hearts of men were not so easily won. If won, rarely kept.
Let us leave to the brain what belongs to it, and agree that the work of the men of genius is of the superhuman, the offspring of man.
To a man, marriage means giving up four out of five of the chiffonier drawers; to a woman, giving up four out of five of her opinions.
My father always said that government is like watching another man piss in your boot. Someone feels better but it certainly isn't you.
In mathematics I can report no deficiency, except it be that men do not sufficiently understand the excellent use of Pure Mathematics.
The more men believe an idea to be true the greater the likelihood that the idea is mistaken. Those who are right usually stand alone.
If people mean that man has in himself the power to work in partnership with God's grace they are most wretchedly deluding themselves.
I never actually got around to taping conversations with my guests, but there are a lot of things you can learn from a man like Nixon.
If young men have jobs - or the prospects of jobs - they are less likely to take up arms, they are less likely to join the resistance.
He Who Knows And Knows That He Knows Is A Wise Man - Follow Him; He Who Knows Not And Knows Not That He Knows Not Is A Fool - Shun Him
Humiliation, slavery, fear have perverted us to the bone; we no longer look like men... . Men must be granted the respect due to them.
Every man is indeed bound to do what he can to promote the good of others, and a man who is of no use to anyone is strictly worthless.
It is about the greatness of God, not the significance of man. God made man small and the universe big to say something about himself.
The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.
I'm not really keen on men wearing perfumes. It's just a bit wrong! I don't find it sexy. I prefer essential oils - patchouli is nice.
Passion is begotten of passion, and it easily happens, as with the children of great men, that the base is the offspring of the noble.
I was listening to the inclusiveness of Spider-Man, and why he's so appealing to so many people, but I didn't connect it all at first.
You think being a man is being strong, being hard, knowing how to defend yourself. But being a man is about learning how to walk away.
Latin men are the most passionate men in the world - they may not be the most aggressive, but they are very passionate, very romantic.
A self-willed man obeys a different law, the one law I, too, hold absolutely sacred the human law in himself, his own individual will.
the leader of armies is the arbiter of the people's fate, the man on whom it depends whether the nation shall be in peace or in peril.
There's a certain kind of lonely man who rejects love, because he believes that anyone who offers it wouldn't be a lover worth having.
The stupidity of a stupid man is mercifully intimate and reticient, while the stupidity of an intellectual is cried from the rooftops.
You got responsibilities when you’re a leader. You got a responsibility not to kill too many of your men. Or who’re you going to lead?
The truly proud man knows neither superiors or inferiors. The first he does not admit of - the last he does not concern himself about.
The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies.
What a man sees depends both upon what he looks at and also upon what his previous visual-conceptual experience has taught him to see.
I actually think it's a good thing that men also have the option to take leave. `Cause sometimes women are breadwinners in the family.
A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.
Never did Poesy appear So full of heaven to me, as when I saw how it would pierce through pride and fear To the lives of coarsest men.
The wine-shops breed, in physical atmosphere of malaria and a moral pestilence of envy and vengeance, the men of crime and revolution.
It is odd to consider the connection between despotism and barbarity, and how the making one person more than man makes the rest less.
Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's; God is, they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be.