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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Novalis Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.
    ― Novalis
    German poet and writer (ps. van Georg van Hardenberg) (1772 - 1801)
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  • John Butler Yeats Only for his dreams is a man responsible, his actions are what he must do.
    ― John Butler Yeats
    Irish painter (1839 - 1922)
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  • John Dryden Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is, with thoughts of what may be.
    ― John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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  • Ronald Knox Only man has dignity; only man, therefore, can be funny.
    ― Ronald Knox
    English Catholic priest, theologian and author (1888 - 1957)
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  • Hugh Blair Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.
    ― Hugh Blair
    Scottish minister of religion, author and rhetorician (1718 - 1800)
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  • Groucho Marx Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men - the other 999 follow women.
    ― Groucho Marx
    American comic actor (1890 - 1977)
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  • Frederick W. Robertson Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do anything that is worth doing.
    ― Frederick W. Robertson
    English divine (1816 - 1853)
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  • Walter Lippmann Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.
    ― Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • Joan Didion Only the dying man can tell how much time he has left.
    Source: The Year of Magical Thinking (2007) 24
    ― Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Ayn Rand Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started.
    ― Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Aeschylus Only when a man's life comes to its end in prosperity dare we pronounce him happy.
    ― Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Clark Kenneth Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.
    ― Clark Kenneth
     
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  • Booker T. Washington Opportunity is like a bald-headed man with only a patch of hair right in front. You have to grab that hair, grasp the opportunity while it's confronting you, else you'll be grasping a slick bald head.
    Source: Speech at the Carrie Tuggle Institute, Birmingham (date unknown) [6]
    ― Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • George Eliot Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.
    ― George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Robert Browning Oppression makes the wise man mad.
    ― Robert Browning
    English poet (1812 - 1889)
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  • Carl Sandburg Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-haired child.
    ― Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Carl Sandburg Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.
    ― Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Isaac Bashevis Singer Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.
    ― Isaac Bashevis Singer
    Polish Yiddish writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1978) (1902 - 1991)
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  • Bruce Springsteen Ought to be easy, ought to be simple enough:
    Man meets woman, and they fall in love,
    But the house is haunted and the ride gets rough.
    You got to learn to live with what you can't rise above.
    Source: Tunnel Of Love (1987) Tunnel of Love
    ― Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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