Quotes with man-not

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• One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And, the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

  Eleanor Roosevelt
  American "First Lady" and columnist (1884 - 1962)
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• One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.

  Oscar Wilde
  Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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• One's work usually occupies more than half of one's waking life. Choosing work that does not bring happiness will lead to a life that is mostly disappointing.

  Year to Success

  Bo Bennett
  American author (1972 - )
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• Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.

  Ad Reinhardt
  American abstract painter (1913 - 1967)
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• 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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• Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
  

  Eleanor Roosevelt
  American "First Lady" and columnist (1884 - 1962)
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• Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth. Writing may be interesting, absorbing, exhilarating, racking, relieving. But amusing? Never!

  Edna Ferber
  American writer (1885 - 1968)
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• 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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• 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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• Only do not leave me in this abyss where I can not find you!

  Wuthering Heights (1847) Ch. XVI

  Emily Brontë
  British writer, poet (1818 - 1848)
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• 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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• Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.

  Joseph Conrad
  In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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• 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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• Only man has dignity; only man, therefore, can be funny.

  Ronald Knox
  English Catholic priest, theologian and author (1888 - 1957)
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• Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

  Hugh Blair
  Scottish minister of religion, author and rhetorician (1718 - 1800)
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• Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.

  Anatole France
  French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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• Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men - the other 999 follow women.

  Groucho Marx
  American comic actor (1890 - 1977)
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• Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do anything that is worth doing.

  Frederick W. Robertson
  English divine (1816 - 1853)
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• Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.

  Walter Lippmann
  American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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• Only the dying man can tell how much time he has left.

  The Year of Magical Thinking (2007) 24

  Joan Didion
  American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• mountain-climbing
• disappointing
• ditch-digging
• consciousness
• responsible
• imagination

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