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There is a debt of service due from every man to his country, proportioned to the bounties which nature and fortune have measured to him.
I also admit, that there are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits which are not good till they are rotten.
I hope we get pulled over, he says. I'd like to see how the cop responds to a black man wearing a Confederate T-shirt over a black dress.
A holy life is in itself a wonderful power, and will make up for many deficiencies; it is in fact the best sermon a man can ever deliver.
There are two contrary impulses which govern this man's brain-the one sane, and the other eccentric. They alternate at regular intervals.
Men are more visual creatures and rate women based on looks. We like to laugh and be shown a good time. I've never rated anyone on looks.
For God's sake, be economical with your lamps and candles! not a gallon you burn, but at least one drop of man's blood was spilled for it.
We should seek the truth without hesitation; and, if we refuse it, we show that we value the esteem of men more than the search for truth.
It is the object of learning, not only to satisfy the curiosity and perfect the spirits of ordinary men, but also to advance civilization.
Dreams and actions are not so different as usually thought, as all actions of men are founded upon dreams, and their end - is a dream too.
Truth is so great a perfection, that if God would render himself visible to men, he would choose light for his body and truth for his soul
I've always been a true believer that if men had babies, nobody would be trying to tell them what they can and can't do with their bodies.
Learning is not a task or a problem-it is a way to be in the world. Man learns as he pursues goals and projects that have meaning for him.
Quench love, and what is left of a man's life but the folding of a few jointed bones and square inches of flesh? Who would call that life?
Whatever may be said against the chewing of tobacco, this at least can be said of it, that it gives a man time to think between sentences.
Ask any man what nationality he would prefer to be, and ninety nine out of a hundred will tell you that they would prefer to be Englishmen
I understand there are some men who are only half here. Let's not say men. Let's say people. People who are more or less obscure at times.
Men forget everything; women remember everything. That's why men need instant replay in sports. They've already forgotten what's happened.
We have more to learn today from the spectacle of a great man at a great moment than from any number of monographs on ancient wage levels.
The Grecian are youthful and erring and fallen gods, with the vices of men, but in many important respects essentially of the divine race.
A girl should set her sights on a man who has money; or if not, who can expect to come into money; or if not, who has moneyed connections.
Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until the day before his anniversary to buy his wife a gift.
Do whatever you do intensely. The artist is the man who leaves the crowd and goes pioneering. With him there is an idea which is his life.
There is no music like a little river's . . . It takes the mind out-of-doors . . . and . . . it quiets a man down like saying his prayers.
The thoughts of great men are the common heritage of humanity and let our countrymen receive inspiration and guidance from these thoughts.
For every man that ever walked the Earth, except maybe the sociopaths, when it comes to talking to pretty girls... it's just stark terror.
There are some cloudy days for the mind as well as for the world; and the man who has the most genius is twenty times a day in the clouds.
Italians have a little joke, that the world is so hard a man must have two fathers to look after him, and that's why they have godfathers.
James Joyce is a cul-de-sac. [Ulysses is] ... an example how literature branched out and went into, lost itself in nowhere, no man's land.
The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take.
A healthy man is content with a woman. An erotic man is content with a stocking to get to a woman. A sick man is content with thestocking.
Old things need not be therefore true, O brother men, nor yet the new; Ah! still awhile the old thought retain, And yet consider it again!
Being just an actor, sometimes people are like, "Hey, man, we don't wanna see you no more, in front of the camera," and I don't want that.
I've fallen in love with my horse. It's a safer bet. We all know from my illustrious past that I should be sticking to men with four legs.
When I was a young man, near the beginning of my life, I looked around with true mindfulness and saw that all things are subject to decay.
I do not believe that the majority of men in the world would like to hurt women, but they can be very complacent, and that is just as bad.
The poet is a man who lives at last by watching his moods. An old poet comes at last to watch his moods as narrowly as a cat does a mouse.
Stand-up is every man for himself; you learn from hanging out at these clubs and watching other guys, and then trying not to be like them.
In honest truth, a name given to a man is no better than a skin given to him; what is not natively his own falls off and comes to nothing.
No man lives or has ever lived who has brought the same amount of study and of natural talent to the detection of crime which I have done.
You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind-legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.
When a man says he wants to meet a girl with a sense of humor, he means one who will laugh at everything he says while her breasts jiggle.
Computing machines perhaps can do the work of a dozen ordinary men, but there is no machine that can do the work of one extraordinary man.
All errors which a man is likely to commit against advice are far outweighed by the evil of allowing others to constrain him for his good.
A man after God's own heart is... a man who yearns to please God, a man who desires to grow spiritually, a man who had a heart that obeys.
Drawn by conceit from reason's plan How vain is that poor creature man; How pleas'd in ev'ry paltry elf To grate about that thing himself.
Toughness is a good thing, yet it is considered good only in men. When a woman is tough, men can't stand it. I like being tough and smart.
The moral duty of man consists of imitatingthe moral goodness and beneficence of God,manifested in the creation, toward all His creatures.
I couldn't have found a better man than Brad. He still opens doors for me and brings me flowers. He's the sweetest goofball on the planet.
The government passed more laws to protect women from dirty jokes than to protect men from death by faulty rafters at a construction site.