Quotes 3241 till 3260 of 4603.
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The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
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The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.
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The first three men in the world were a gardener, a ploughman, and a grazier; and if any man object that the second of these was a murderer, I desire he would consider that as soon as he was so, he quitted our profession and turned builder.
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The flame from the angel's sword in the garden of Eden has been catalyzed into the atom bomb; God's thunderbolt became blunted, so man's thunderbolt has become the steel star of destruction.
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The follies which a man regrets the most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.
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The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool.
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The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
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The fool thinks himself to be wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
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The foolish man conceives the idea of 'self.' The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of 'self;' thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain.
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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; The wise grows it under his feet.
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The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.
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The free man must be born before freedom can be won, and the brotherly man must be born before full brotherhood can be won. It will come into being only if we build it out of our very muscle and bone - by trying to act it out.
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The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.
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The Germans are the most philosophic people in the world, and the greatest smokers: now I trace their philosophy to their smoking. Smoking has a sedative effect upon the nerves, and enables a man to bear the sorrows of this life (of which every one has his share) not only decently, but dignifiedly.
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The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him.
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The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration.
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The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who throws himself on your part so heartily, that he can get you out of a scrape.
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The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.
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