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Depend on no man, on no friend but him who can depend on himself. He only who acts conscientiously toward himself, will act so toward others.
Man is so inconsistent a creature that it is impossible to reason from his beliefs to his conduct, or from one part of his belief to another.
The Kingdom of Heaven, O man, requires no other price than yourself. The value of it is yourself. Give yourself for it and you shall have it.
Again and again there comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make four is punished with death. ("The Plague")
Is there any conflict between science and religion? There is no conflict in the mind of God, but often there is conflict in the minds of men.
The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortunes.
Atheism leads a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation: all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue.
As a splendid palace deserted by its inmates looks like a ruin, so does a man without character, all his material belongings notwithstanding.
All women speak two languages: the language of men and the language of silent suffering. Some women speak a third, the language of queens.
Men and women who are used of GOD, if I had only a few words to describe them, they are the passionate-weak, they are the violently-desperate.
The best kind of men have a certainty in themselves that isn't done in when countered by a certainty in their women, and they are much adored.
Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.
A business which exists to make one man or one family rich, and whose existence is of no moment when this is achieved, is not solidly founded.
There is no beauty or romance or mystery in the sea except for the men that sail abroad upon it, and those who stay at home and dream of them.
No man ever saw a government. I live in the midst of the Government of the United States, but I never saw the Government of the United States.
I always say that you know when an Italian plane has landed at an airport because the men look uber-stylish, theyve got scarves on and suits.
Never yet was a nation born that did not begin in the spirit, pass to the heart and the mind, and then take an outer form in the world of men.
Bride knoweth bride at the glance of an eye. And between them swiftly passes comfort and meaning in a language that man and widows wot not of.
Be cheerful, also, and seek not external help, nor the peace which others give. A man must stand straight, and not be kept straight by others.
Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the government take care of him better take a closer look at the American Indian.
The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.
If you have no money, men won't care for you, women won't love you; won't, that is, care for you or love you the last little bit that matters.
I have always known that writing fiction had little effect on the world; that if it did, young men would not have gone to war after The Iliad.
Man is able, and has the duty, to reach the furthest point on the road he has chosen. Only by means of hope can we attain what is beyond hope.
If we do not catch men, we are in great danger of losing even the desire to catch them. Our purposed activity is in peril of becoming a dream.
When men talk about defense, they always claim to be protecting women and children, but they never ask the women and children what they think.
Before money or anything else. Money cannot buy it...Because a man I do not trust could not get money from me on all the bonds in Christendom.
If you want to get known as a singer you hire five sexy chicks and let them fight over you onstage and for the cameras. That's publicity, man.
None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
I have seen many men work without praying, though I have never seen any good come out of it; but I have never seen a man pray without working.
The happiest lot for a man, as far as birth is concerned, is that it should be such as to give him but little occasion to think much about it.
Have you beheld a man skillful in his work? Before kings is where he will station himself; he will not station himself before commonplace men.
We can seek God and find him! God is knowable, touchable, hearable, seeable, with the mind, the hands, the ears and the eyes of the inner man.
To expect a man to retain everything that he has ever read is like expecting him to carry about in his body everything that he has ever eaten.
Every man is rich or poor according to the degree in which he can afford to enjoy the necessaries, conveniences, and amusements of human life.
I do bookstore signings, and it seems to me that I get a variety of men and women, more women than I'd expect, and grown-ups among my readers.
The religion of Big Data sets itself the goal of fulfilling man's unattainable desires, but for that very reason ignores her attainable needs.
Secrecy sets barriers between men, but at the same time offers the seductive temptation to break through the barriers by gossip or confession.
I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake.
If there be any thing a man might well pray against, that thing is the responsive gratification of some of the devoutest prayers of his youth.
You can persuade a man to believe almost anything provided he is clever enough, but it is much more difficult to persuade someone less clever.
I please myself with imagining a State at last which can afford to be just to all men, and to treat the individual with respect as a neighbor.
The philosophers of antiquity taught contempt for work, that degradation of the free man, the poets sang of idleness, that gift from the Gods.
Concentrate . . . for the greatest achievements are reserved for the man of single aim, in whom no rival powers divide the empire of the soul.
I really knew I wanted to be Adam, because Adam was the first man. Ant I chose because, if there's a nuclear explosion, the ants will survive.
Earth bears no balsams for mistakes; Men crown the knave, and scourge the tool That did his will: but thou, O Lord, Be merciful to me, a fool.
This wild emaciated look appeals to some women, though not to many men, who are seldom seen pinning up a Vogue illustration in a machine shop.
By predestination we mean the eternal decree of God, by which He determined with Himself whatever He wished to happen with regard to every man
Everything I do is going to contain the message that men who are going to be comfortable with powerful women are going to be more powerful men
Wealth: A cunning device of Fate whereby men are made captive, and burdened with responsibilites from which only Death can file their fetters.