Quotes with man-being

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  • William Faulkner A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.
    William Faulkner
    American writer (1897 - 1962)
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  • Joseph Conrad A man's most open actions have a secret side to them.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Walter Bagehot A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault.
    Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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  • Lord Chesterfield A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Napoleon A man's palate can, in time, become accustomed to anything.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson A man's personal defects will commonly have with the rest of the world precisely that importance which they have to himself. If he makes light of them, so will other men.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • R. F. Hallock A man's possessions are just as large as his own soul. If this title-deeds cover more, the surplus acres own him, not he the acres.
    R. F. Hallock
     
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  • Alexander Smith A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.
    Alexander Smith
    Scottish Poet, Author (1829 - 1867)
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  • Gerald Stanley Lee A man's success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to believe he has something that they want.
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  • Ludwig Wittgenstein A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    Austrian - English philosopher (1889 - 1951)
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  • Charlie Chaplin A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.
    Charlie Chaplin
    British actor, movie maker (1889 - 1977)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Walter Savage Landor A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.
    Walter Savage Landor
    British poet (1775 - 1864)
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  • Oscar Wilde A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats his breast, and tells all the sins of his life.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Alexander Graham Bell A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself.
    Alexander Graham Bell
    Scottish-born scientist, inventor, engineer, and innovator (1847 - 1922)
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Jose Ferrer A man, when he wishes, is the master of his fate.
    Jose Ferrer
     
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  • George Bernard Shaw A married man forms married habits and becomes dependent on marriage just as a sailor becomes dependent on the sea.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • George Bernard Shaw A married man is a man with a past, while a bachelor is a man with a future.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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