Quotes 1621 till 1640 of 25361.
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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 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 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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A married man forms married habits and becomes dependent on marriage just as a sailor becomes dependent on the sea.
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A masculine education cannot spare from professional study and the necessary acquisition of languages, the time and attention which I have bestowed on the compositions of my countrymen.
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A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outline and covering up all the details.
Politics and the English Language (1945) -
A master of improvised speech and improvised policies.
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A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back.
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