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The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority.
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The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.
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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing, but newspapers.
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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.
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The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.
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The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born.
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The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.
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The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.
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The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.
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The man whose life is devoted to paperwork has lost the initiative. He is dealing with things that are brought to his notice, having ceased to notice anything for himself.
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The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
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The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.
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The man with but one idea in his head is sure to exaggerate that to top-heaviness, and thus he loses his equilibrium.
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The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, 'How is the president?'
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The man with the real sense of humor is the man who can put himself in the spectator's place and laugh at his own misfortunes.
The American Magazine, Volume 85 -
The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life, and, having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you.
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The man, most man, works best for men: and, if most man indeed, he gets his manhood plainest from his soul.
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The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a ''But''.
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The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
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