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  • Henry Miller Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Samuel Johnson Every man has, some time in his life, an ambition to be a wag.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Norman Douglas Every man is a solitary in his grief.
    Norman Douglas
    British Author (1868 - 1952)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Every man is an omnibus in which his ancestors ride.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Francis Herbert Hedge Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own fortune, and he inherits his own past.
    Francis Herbert Hedge
    British philosopher (1846 - 1924)
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  • Anacharsis Every man is his own chief enemy.
    Anacharsis
    Scythian philosopher
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  • Aleksander Kwasniewski Every man is responsible only for his own acts. The sons do not inherit the sins of the fathers. But can we say: that was long ago, they were different?
    Aleksander Kwasniewski
    Polish politician and journalist (1954 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Paul Auster Every man is the author of his own life.
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    Paul Auster
    American writer and film (1947 - )
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  • Henry David Thoreau Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style purely his own, nor can he get off by hammering marble instead. We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Sir Richard Steele Every man is the maker of his own fortune.
    Sir Richard Steele
    British Dramatist, Essayist, Editor (1672 - 1729)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes Every man is the son of his own works.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Camille Paglia Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Martin Luther Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.
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  • Frederick the Great Every man must get to Heaven his own way.
    Frederick the Great
    King of Prussia (1740-1786) (1712 - 1786)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Every man must patiently bide his time. He must wait - not in listless idleness but in constant, steady, cheerful endeavors, always willing and fulfilling and accomplishing his task, that when the occasion comes he may be equal to the occasion.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Oscar Wilde Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of this century is wealth. To succeed one must have wealth. At all costs one must have wealth.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Every man over forty is responsible for his face.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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