Quotes 1661 till 1680 of 26406.
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A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.
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A man with few friends is only halfdeveloped; there are whole sides of his nature which are locked up and have never been expressed.
Youth and life (1913) -
A man would prefer to come home to an unmade bed and a happy woman than to a neatly made bed and an angry woman.
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A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.
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A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.
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A man's doubts and fears are his worst enemies.
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A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations.
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A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, and his next to escape the censures of the world.
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A man's height gives him a different outlook on his environment and so changes his character.
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A man's idea in a game of cards is war, cruel, devastating, and pitiless. A lady's idea of it is a combination of larceny, embezzlement and burglary.
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A man's labor is not only his capital but his life. When it passes it returns never more. To utilize it, to prevent its wasteful squandering, to enable the poor man to bank it up for use hereafter, this surely is one of the most urgent tasks before civilization.
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A man's love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.
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A man's memory is bound to be a distortion of his past in accordance with his present interests, and the most faithful autobiography is likely to mirror less what a man was than what he has become.
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A man's mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
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A man's most open actions have a secret side to them.
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A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.
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A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats his breast, and tells all the sins of his life.
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A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.
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A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.
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A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
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