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  • Mark Twain Man is a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Lord George Byron Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Cat Stevens Man is created to be God's deputy on earth and it is important to realize the obligation to rid ourselves of all illusions and to make our lives a preparation for the next life.
    Cat Stevens
    British singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1948 - )
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  • Eric Hoffer Man is eminently a storyteller. His search for a purpose, a cause, an ideal, a mission and the like is largely a search for a plot and a pattern in the development of his life story - a story that is basically without meaning or pattern.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Samuel Butler Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • John Donne Man is not only a contributory creature, but a total creature; he does not only make one, but he is all; he is not a piece of the world, but the world itself; and next to the glory of God, the reason why there is a world.
    John Donne
    English poet (1572 - 1631)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • William Cowper Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
    William Cowper
    English poet (1731 - 1800)
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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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  • Mark Twain Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Doris Lessing Man who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance!
    Doris Lessing
    British novelist (1919 - 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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  • 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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  • Albert Claude Man, like other organisms, is so perfectly coordinated that he may easily forget, whether awake or asleep, that he is a colony of cells in action, and that it is the cells which achieve, through him, what he has the illusion of accomplishing himself.
    Albert Claude
    Belgian-American cell biologist and doctor (1899 - 1983)
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  • William Shakespeare Man, proud man, drest in a little brief authority, most ignorant of what he's most assur d, glassy essence, like an angry ape, plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven, as make the angels weep.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Sydney Smith Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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  • Edmund Burke Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Billy Graham Many churches of all persuasions are hiring research agencies to poll neighborhoods, asking what kind of church they prefer. Then the local churches design themselves to fit the desires of the people. True faith in God that demands selflessness is being replaced by trendy religion that serves the selfish.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Juvenal Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.
    Juvenal
    Roman poet
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