Quotes 1561 till 1580 of 25144.
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A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.
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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 fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.
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A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.
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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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A man must be master of his hours and days, not their servant.
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A man must be sacrificed now and again to provide for the next generation of men.
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A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.
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A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry, a hundred in dress.
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A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
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A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
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A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.
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A man of knowledge chooses a path with a heart and follows it and then he looks and rejoices and laughs and then he sees and knows.
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A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters.
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A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar.
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A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.
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A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.
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A man renowned for repartee will seldom scruple to make free with friendship's finest feeling, will thrust a dagger at your breast, and say he wounded you in jest, by way of balm for healing.
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A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.
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