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The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.
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The man whose life is devoted to paperwork has lost the initiative. He is dealing with things that are brought to his notice, having ceased to notice anything for himself.
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The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
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The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.
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The man with but one idea in his head is sure to exaggerate that to top-heaviness, and thus he loses his equilibrium.
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The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, 'How is the president?'
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The man with the real sense of humor is the man who can put himself in the spectator's place and laugh at his own misfortunes.
Source: The American Magazine, Volume 85 -
The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life, and, having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you.
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The man, most man, works best for men: and, if most man indeed, he gets his manhood plainest from his soul.
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The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a ''But''.
― Henry Ward Beecher
American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887) -
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
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The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.
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The media no longer ask those who know something to share that knowledge with the public. Instead they ask those who know nothing to represent the ignorance of the public and, in so doing, to legitimate it.
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The mental flexibility of the wise man permits him to keep an open mind and enables him to readjust himself whenever it becomes necessary for a change.
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The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him.
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The mind of man is capable of anything - because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future.
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The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up.
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The mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-à-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.
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