Quotes with has-been

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  • Ben Johnson No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
    Ben Johnson
    English playwright and poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher No man is such a conqueror, as the one that has defeated himself.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson No man is useless while he has a friend.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Bram Stoker No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.
    Source: Dracula (1897) Jonathan Harker
    Bram Stoker
    Irish author (1847 - 1912)
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  • Henry Brooks Adams No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.
    Henry Brooks Adams
    American historian (1838 - 1918)
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  • Elbert Hubbard No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt No man needs sympathy because he has to work. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • John S. Bonnell No man or woman has achieved an effective personality who is not self-disciplined. Such discipline must not be an end in itself, but must be directed to the development of resolute Christian character.
    John S. Bonnell
    American pastor
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  • Hitopadesa No man should ever display his bravery unless he is prepared for battle, nor bear the marks of defiance, until he has experienced the abilities of his enemy.
    Hitopadesa
    Indian text in Sanskrit
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  • Honoré de Balzac No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
    Honoré de Balzac
    French writer (1799 - 1850)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby-so helpless and so ridiculous.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Ezra Pound No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Socrates No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades, that of government.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Thomas Carlyle No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Demosthenes No man who is not willing to help himself has any right to apply to his friends, or to the gods.
    Demosthenes
    Greek statesman and orator (382 - 322)
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  • William James No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Minor White No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.
    Minor White
     
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  • Barbara de Angelis No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning.
    Barbara de Angelis
    American relationship consultant, lecturer and author (1951 - )
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  • Alan Cohen No matter what has happened, let today be new.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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