Quotes with man-being

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  • Robert Louis Stevenson That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Henry David Thoreau That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Thomas Hardy That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.
    Thomas Hardy
    British writer and poet (1840 - 1928)
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  • Paul Valery That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.
    Paul Valery
    French poet (1871 - 1945)
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  • B. F. Skinner The feeling of being interested can act as a kind of neurological signal, directing us to fruitful areas of inquiry.
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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  • Henry David Thoreau The generative energy, which, when we are loose, dissipates and makes us unclean, when we are continent invigorates and inspires us. Chastity is the flowering of man; and what are called Genius, Heroism, Holiness, and the like, are but various fruits which succeed it.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the woman all that is not himself, and from that one resultant, from that embrace, comes every new action.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Brooks Atkinson The humorous man recognizes that absolute purity, absolute justice, absolute logic and perfection are beyond human achievement and that men have been able to live happily for thousands of years in a state of genial frailty.
    Brooks Atkinson
    American theatre critic (1894 - 1984)
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  • Aristotle The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Joseph Addison The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Salman Rushdie The liveliness of literature lies in its exceptionality, in being the individual, idiosyncratic vision of one human being, in which, to our delight and great surprise, we may find our own vision reflected.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Andrew Carnegie The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he justly entitled.
    Andrew Carnegie
    American industrialist (1835 - 1919)
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  • Henry David Thoreau The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready, and it may be a long time before they get off.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • James Lendall Basford The man who never has money enough to pay his debts has too much of something else.
    Source: Sparks from the philosopher's stone (1882)
    James Lendall Basford
    American aphorist (1845 - 1915)
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  • William Faulkner The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
    William Faulkner
    American writer (1897 - 1962)
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  • Voltaire The punishment of criminals should serve a purpose. When a man is hanged he is useless.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Katherine Anne Porter The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own -even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.
    Katherine Anne Porter
    American short-story writer (1890 - 1980)
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  • Henry David Thoreau The savage in man is never quite eradicated.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Confucius The superior man is modest in his speech but exceeds in his actions.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Confucius The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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