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Quotes 1901 till 1920 of 5049.

  • Socrates If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Jenny Weber If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
    Jenny Weber
     
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  • Abraham Cahan 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
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson 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.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Seneca If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Eldridge Cleaver 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.
    Eldridge Cleaver
    American afro-amerikan leader, writer (1935 - 1998)
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  • Albert Schweitzer If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson If a man loves the labor of his trade apart from any question of success or fame, the Gods have called him.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher 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
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Buddha 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.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Josh Billings If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson If a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if he has a headache.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Aeschylus 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.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne 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.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Buddha If a man who enjoys a lesser happiness beholds a greater one, let him leave aside the lesser to gain the greater.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Francis Bacon 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.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson If a man will kick a fact out of the window, when he comes back he finds it again in the chimney corner.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Alexander Pope If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Bram Stoker If a man's esteem and gratitude are ever worth the winning, you have won mine today. If ever the future should bring to you a time when you need a man's help, believe me, you will not call in vain. God grant that no such time may ever come to you to break the sunshine of your life; but if it should ever come, promise me that you will let me know.
    Bram Stoker
    Irish author (1847 - 1912)
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