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A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.
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A man of meditation functions differently. Whatever profession he chooses, it does not matter. He will bring to his profession some quality of sacredness. He may be making shoes, or he may be cleaning the roads, but he will bring to his work some quality, some grace, some beauty, which is not possible without samÄdhi.
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A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters.
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A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar.
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A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thought.
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A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.
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A man ought to read just as his inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good.
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A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.
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A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
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A man renowned for repartee will seldom scruple to make free with friendship's finest feeling, will thrust a dagger at your breast, and say he wounded you in jest, by way of balm for healing.
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A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
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A man should be an individual, but not independent.
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A man should be free to do what he wants to do, as long as it doesn't hurt others.
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A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.
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A man should first direct himself in the way he should go. Only then should he instruct others.
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A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.
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A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.
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A man should live with his superiors as he does with his fire: not too near, lest he burn; nor too far off, lest he freeze.
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A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.
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