Quotes with man-being

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  • Edward Coke The King himself should be under no man, but under God and the Law.
    Prohibitions del Roy
    Edward Coke
    English barrister, judge and politician (1552 - 1634)
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  • Augustus William Hare The king is the least independent man in his dominions; the beggar the most so.
    Augustus William Hare
    British writer (1792 - 1834)
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  • Thomas Carlyle The king is the man who can.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Henry David Thoreau The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Lord George Byron The lapse of ages changes all things - time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars of the sky, and every thing ''about, around, and underneath'' man, except man himself.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Booker T. Washington The last I heard of the young man in question, he was trying to eke out a miserable existence as a book agent while he was looking about for a position somewhere with the Government as a janitor or for some other equally humble occupation.
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • James Thurber The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms - hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • Alma Guillermoprieto The left is being funded primarily by the drug traffickers who provide this tax money and that's why the guerrillas in Colombia, unlike the guerrillas anywhere else in Latin America, have been able to survive for 40 years because they have a hard, solid source of income.
    Alma Guillermoprieto
    Mexican journalist
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  • Bob Barr The legal principle placing the burden of proof on accusers rather than the accused can be traced back to Second and Third Century Roman jurist, Julius Paulus Prudentissimus. Yet, this ancient concept, which forms the legal and moral cornerstone of the American judicial system, is quickly being undermined in the name of 'national security.'
    Bob Barr
    American attorney and politician (1948 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Oscar Wilde The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilized being than the blockhead who loudly expresses his disbelief in a story which is told simply for the amusement of the company.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Abraham Cowley The liberty of a people consists in being governed by laws which they have made themselves, under whatsoever form it be of government; the liberty of a private man, in being master of his own time and actions, as far as may consist with the laws of God and of his country.
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Bertrand Russell The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • David Hume The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.
    On Suicide
    David Hume
    Scottish Philosopher, Historian (1711 - 1776)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Milan Kundera The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and thus the novelists discoveries, however old they may be, will never cease to astonish.
    Milan Kundera
    Tsjech writer and criticus (1929 - 2023)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe The little man is still a man.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Benjamin Haydon The longer a man lives in this world the more he must be convinced that all domestic quarrels had better never be obtruded on the public; for, let the husband be right, or let him be wrong, there is always a sympathy existing for women which is certain to give the man the worst of it.
    Benjamin Haydon
    British artist (1786 - 1846)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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