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Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would give them help at that age?
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Everything can be taken away from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedom - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
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Everything comes if a man will only wait.
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Evil, and evil spirits, devils and devil possession, are the outgrowth of man's inadequate consciousness of God. We must avoid thinking of evil as a thing in itself-a force that works against man or, against God, if you will.
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Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
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Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him.
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Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.
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Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.
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Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree. We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
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Except the American woman, nothing interests the eye of American man more than the automobile, or seems so important to him as an object of aesthetic appreciation.
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Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
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Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been.
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Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.
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Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use.
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Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.
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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.
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Failing to be there when a man wants her is a woman's greatest sin, except to be there when he doesn't want her.
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Failure - The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.
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Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.
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Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man. It is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.
Source: Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays (1997) p. 331
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