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How can any man be weak who dares to be at all?
Henry David Thoreau
I don't hold with prophets, said Alvin. Near as I can tell, they end up just as dead as the next man.
Orson Scott Card
The uttered part of a man's life, let us always repeat, bears to the unuttered, unconscious part a small unknown proportion. He himself never knows it, much less do others.
Thomas Carlyle
Asking a man if he could be trusted was like asking an unwed girl if she was a virgin. The question mattered, but the asking of it was a gross insult.
If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.
Benjamin Franklin
A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.
Samuel Johnson
Man loves malice, but not against one-eyed men nor the unfortunate, but against the fortunate and proud.
Blaise Pascal
When a man had deserved his good luck, it was the part of his neighbors to wish him joy.
George Eliot
Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
This bird sees the white man come and the Indian withdraw, but it withdraws not. Its untamed voice is still heard above the tinkling of the forge... It remains to remind us of aboriginal nature.
A mans manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.
Albert Camus
A man might write such stuff for ever, if he would abandon his mind to it.
He was growing up. Soon he would be a man. He wondered what that would mean. Surely he could not have more required of him as an adult that had been required of him as a child. There could not be more.
To him, man was a being with myriad lives and myriad sensations, a complex multiform creature that bore within itself strange legacies of thought and passion, and whose very flesh was tainted with the monstrous maladies of the dead.
Oscar Wilde
When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
In every man's writings, the character of the writer must lie recorded.
He would have left a Greek accent slanting the wrong way, and righted up a falling man.
It is absurd to hold that a man ought to be ashamed of being unable to defend himself with his limbs but not of being unable to defend himself with speech and reason, when the use of reason is more distinctive of a human being than the use of his limbs.
Aristotle
In a stupid nation the man of genius becomes a god: everybody worships him and nobody does his will.
George Bernard Shaw
