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Man Quotes
"It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of man is tested."
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"All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone."
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"Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world."
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"One declaims endlessly against the passions; one imputes all of man's suffering to them. One forgets that they are also the source of all his pleasures."
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"Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him."
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"That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward."
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"This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still."
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"Dr. Johnson was a lazy learned man who liked to think and talk better than to read or write; who, however, wrote much and well, but too often by rote."
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"I know not what record of sin awaits me in the other world, but this I know, that I was never mean enough to despise any man because he was black."
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"There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less."
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"Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest."
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"The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall."
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"To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself."
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"The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets."
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"The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober."
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"Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men."
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"Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal."
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"Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough."
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"Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion."
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"As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become."
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"Inconsistencies in men are generally testimony to their immaturity."
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