Quotes 3181 till 3200 of 4603.
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The condition of man is a condition of war of every one against everyone.
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The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
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The convent, which belongs to the West as it does to the East, to antiquity as it does to the present time, to Buddhism and Muhammadanism as it does to Christianity, is one of the optical devices whereby man gains a glimpse of infinity.
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The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.
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The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture.
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The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man's frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search.
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The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear - and even, in certain respects, would be - the most modern of critical movements.
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The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his mouth, and yet come out of that room a disloyal friend or a vile calumniator.
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The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.
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The cultured man is an artist, an artist in humanity.
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The cunning man uses deceit, but the more cunning man shuns deception.
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The curse of man, and the cause of nearly all his woe, is his stupendous capacity for believing the incredible.
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The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.
― Henry Ward Beecher
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The cynic says, ''One man can't do anything.'' I say, ''Only one man can do anything.''
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The darkest day of any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.
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The day may be approaching when the whole world will recognize woman as the equal of man.
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