Quotes 1801 till 1820 of 4652.
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If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
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If a man is dumb, someone is going to get the best of him, so why not you? If you don't, you're as dumb as he is.
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If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
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If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
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If a man is tongue-tied, don't laugh at him, but, rather, feel pity for him, as you would for a man with broken legs.
― Abraham Cahan
Belarusian-born Jewish American socialist newspaper editor, novelist, and politician -
If a man knew anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest; but he is such an ignorant peacock, that he goes bustling up and down, and hits on extraordinary discoveries.
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If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.
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If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.
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If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.
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If a man loves the labor of his trade apart from any question of success or fame, the Gods have called him.
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If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it; but if he is angry after he has had time to think upon it, that is sinful. The flame is not wring, but the coals are.
― Henry Ward Beecher
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If a man offend a harmless, pure, and innocent person, the evil falls back upon that fool, like light dust thrown up against the wind.
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If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.
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If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself.
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If a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if he has a headache.
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If a man suffers ill, let it be without shame; for this is the only profit when we are dead. You will never say a good word about deeds that are evil and disgraceful.
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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.
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If a man who enjoys a lesser happiness beholds a greater one, let him leave aside the lesser to gain the greater.
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If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
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If a man will kick a fact out of the window, when he comes back he finds it again in the chimney corner.
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