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  • Thomas à Kempis Man proposes, but God disposes.
    Thomas à Kempis
    Dutch medieval Augustinian canon, writer and mystic (1380 - 1471)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Henry Miller 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...
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Albert Camus Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Winston Churchill Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Reinhold Niebuhr Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
    Reinhold Niebuhr
    American theologist, historian (1892 - 1971)
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  • Alexander Maclaren Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.
    Alexander Maclaren
    British preacher (1826 - 1910)
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  • Nelson Mandela Man's goodness is a flame that can be hidden but never extinguished.
    Nelson Mandela
    South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and political leader (1918 - 2013)
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  • Bishop Joseph Henshaw 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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  • Dorothea Brande Man's mind is not a container to be filled but rather a fire to be kindled.
    Dorothea Brande
    American writer and editor (1893 - 1948)
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Elie Wiesel Man, as long as he lives, is immortal. One minute before his death he shall be immortal. But one minute later, God wins.
    Elie Wiesel
    Rumanian-born American Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Lord George Byron Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • William Hazlitt Mankind are an incorrigible race. Give them but bugbears and idols - it is all that they ask; the distinctions of right and wrong, of truth and falsehood, of good and evil, are worse than indifferent to them.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Martin Luther Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.
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  • Victor Hugo Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Alfred Lord Tennyson Manners are not idle, but the fruit. Of loyal nature and of noble mind.
    Alfred Lord Tennyson
    English poet (1809 - 1892)
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  • Maurice Maeterlinck Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.
    Maurice Maeterlinck
    Belgian poet, playwright and Nobel Prize winner (1911) (1862 - 1949)
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  • Bruce Barton Many a man who pays rent all his life owns his own home; and many a family has successfully saved for a home only to find itself at last with nothing but a house.
    Bruce Barton
    American Author, Advertising Executive (1886 - 1967)
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