Quotes with man-being

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  • Benjamin Disraeli Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Charles Haddon Spurgeon Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon
    English Baptist preacher (1834 - 1892)
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  • Margaret Fuller Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.
    Margaret Fuller
    American writer (1810 - 1850)
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  • Erica Jong Beware of the man who denounces woman writers; his penis is tiny and he cannot spell.
    Erica Jong
    American author (1942 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Kurt Vonnegut Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before, Bokonon tells us. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.
    Kurt Vonnegut
    American writer (1922 - 2007)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Beware of the man whose God is in the skies.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Mark Twain Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Bibhu Mohapatra Birds themselves are so interesting and intelligent, and they give so many cues without being verbal, so they say such great things. Feathers are superior to fur, even. They're so beautiful, and nature uses such amazing colors.
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  • Lydia M. Child Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father!
    Lydia M. Child
    American Abolitionist, Writer, Editor (1802 - 1880)
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  • Elbert Hubbard Blessed is that man who has found his work.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Alexander Pope Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
    Letter to William Fortescue (23 september 1725)
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • John Burroughs Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.
    John Burroughs
    American writer (1837 - 1921)
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  • George Eliot Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Carlos Santana Blues was my first love. It was the first thing where I said Oh man, this is the stuff. It just sounded so raw and honest, gut-bucket honest. From then I started rebelling.
    Carlos Santana
    Mexican and American guitarist (1947 - )
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Books are fatal: they are the curse of the human race. Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense. The greatest misfortune that ever befell man was the invention of printing.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Susan Sontag Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Bruce Springsteen Born down in a dead man's town;
    The first kick I took was when I hit the ground.
    You end up like a dog that's been beat too much
    'Til you spend half your life just covering up.
    Born In The U.S.A. (1984) Born in the USA
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Beah Richards Both class and race survive education, and neither should. What is education then? If it doesn't help a human being to recognize that humanity is humanity, what is it for? So you can make a bigger salary than other people?
    Beah Richards
    American actress (1920 - 2000)
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