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A man is an island in the only sense that matters, not an easy way to be. We live in mystery, a cosmos of separate lonely bodies, men, insects, stars. It is all a loneliness and men know it best.
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A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.
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A man is free to go up as high as he can reach up to; but I, with all my style and pep, can't get a man my equal because a girl is always judged by her mother.
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A man is not expected to love his country, lest he make an ass of himself. Yet our country, seen through the mists of smog, is curiously lovable, in somewhat the way an individual who has got himself into an unconscionable scrape seems lovable - or at least deserving of support.
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A man is not finished when he's defeated; he's finished when he quits.
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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.
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A man is not much if he can't depend on himself, and nothing if others can't depend on him.
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A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas, any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of soldiers.
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A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.
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A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings.
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A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
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A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.
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A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake.
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A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he can't sit on it.
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A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
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A man may fall many times but he won't be a failure until he says someone pushed him.
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A man may forgive many wrongs, but he cannot easily forgive anyone who makes it plain that his conversation is tedious.
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A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.
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A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
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