Quotes with man-knowledge

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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Josh Billings One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Man Ray One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
    Man Ray
    American visual artist (1890 - 1976)
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  • Benjamin Haydon One of the surest evidences of an elevated taste is the power of enjoying works of impassioned terrorism, in poetry, and painting. The man who can look at impassioned subjects of terror with a feeling of exultation may be certain he has an elevated taste.
    Benjamin Haydon
    British artist (1786 - 1846)
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  • Edgar W. Howe One of the surprising things in this world is the respect a worthless man has for himself.
    Edgar W. Howe
    American journalist and writer (1853 - 1937)
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  • Bob Hoskins One of the things I've realised is that I am very simple. My wife asked me once if I loved her. I said: 'Look love, I'm a simple man. I love you. End of story.' But I guess you gotta keep saying it with women. I guess she needed reassurance.
    Bob Hoskins
    English actor (1942 - 2014)
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  • Bruce Eric Kaplan One quintessential moment in time is when you're 22, when you graduate college. And then another quintessential time is as a middle-age man. That's the convergence.
    Bruce Eric Kaplan
    American cartoonist
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  • I Ching One should act in consonance with the way of heaven and earth, which is enduring and eternal. The superior man perseveres long in his course, adapts to the times, but remains firm in his direction and correct in his goals.
    I Ching
    Chinese classical text (Book of Changes)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes One shouldn't talk of halters in the hanged man's house.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Publilius Syrus One ungrateful man does an injury to all who stand in need of aid.
    Publilius Syrus
    Syrian poet (85 - 43)
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  • Abraham H. Maslow One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.
    Abraham H. Maslow
    American psychologist (1908 - 1970)
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  • Alexandre Dumas père Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.
    Alexandre Dumas père
    French writer (1802 - 1870)
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  • Eleanor Roosevelt Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    American "First Lady" and columnist (1884 - 1962)
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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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  • Arthur Rimbaud Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
    Arthur Rimbaud
    French poet (1854 - 1891)
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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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