Quotes 821 till 840 of 4657.
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Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.
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Actors are loved because they are unoriginal. Actors stick to their script. The unoriginal man is loved by the mediocrity because this kind of ''artistic'' expression is something to which the merest five-eighth can climb.
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Adam was the luckiest man; he had no mother-in-law.
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Adultery itself in its principle is many times nothing but a curious inquisition after, and envy of another man's enclosed pleasures: and there have been many who refused fairer objects that they might ravish an enclosed woman from her retirement and single possessor.
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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.
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Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.
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Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves.
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After a fellow gets famous it does not take long for someone to bob up that used to sit next to him in school.
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After all he is only a man, that is to say capable of little and of much, of all and of nothing; he is neither angel nor brute, but man.
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After all the black man has been through in this world, he can still often reach levels of spirituality the most pampered white man cannot touch. Maybe what he's been through is the reason why.
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After all, there's only one answer to be made to the young fellow who is asking constantly for advice as to how to hit. The answer is: Pick out a good one and sock it!
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After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.
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Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.
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Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time.
Source: On his 85th birthday. UPI News Report, August 20, 1955― Bernard M. Baruch
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Ah! Sir, a boy's being flogged is not so severe as a man's having the hiss of the world against him.
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Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?
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Ah, when to the heart of man was it ever less than a treason to go with the drift of things to yield with a grace to reason and bow and accept at the end of a love or a season.
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Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't no man got to be common.
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Alas after a certain age, every man is responsible for his own face.
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