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Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.
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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.
Philosophy and Politics -
Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.
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Man proposes, but God disposes.
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Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.
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Man should be master of his environment, not its slave. That is what freedom means.
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Man torturing man is a fiend beyond description. You turn a corner in the dark and there he is. You congeal into a bundle of inanimate fear. You become the very soul of anesthesia. But there is no escaping him. It is your turn now...
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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.
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Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.
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Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
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Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.
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Man's goodness is a flame that can be hidden but never extinguished.
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Man's life is like unto a winter's day, Some break their fast and so depart away, Others stay dinner then depart full fed; The longest age but sups and goes to bed. Oh, reader, then behold and see, As we are now so must you be.
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Man's mind and not his master makes him slave.
To the Spirit of Byron -
Man's mind is not a container to be filled but rather a fire to be kindled.
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Man's own youth is the world's youth; at least he feels as if it were, and imagines that the earth's granite substance is something not yet hardened, and which he can mould into whatever shape he likes.
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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.
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Man, as long as he lives, is immortal. One minute before his death he shall be immortal. But one minute later, God wins.
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