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  • Henry David Thoreau The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Lord George Byron The lapse of ages changes all things - time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars of the sky, and every thing ''about, around, and underneath'' man, except man himself.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Booker T. Washington The last I heard of the young man in question, he was trying to eke out a miserable existence as a book agent while he was looking about for a position somewhere with the Government as a janitor or for some other equally humble occupation.
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • James Thurber The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms - hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Abraham Cowley The liberty of a people consists in being governed by laws which they have made themselves, under whatsoever form it be of government; the liberty of a private man, in being master of his own time and actions, as far as may consist with the laws of God and of his country.
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Bertrand Russell The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • David Hume The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.
    On Suicide
    David Hume
    Scottish Philosopher, Historian (1711 - 1776)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Milan Kundera The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and thus the novelists discoveries, however old they may be, will never cease to astonish.
    Milan Kundera
    Tsjech writer and criticus (1929 - 2023)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe The little man is still a man.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Benjamin Haydon The longer a man lives in this world the more he must be convinced that all domestic quarrels had better never be obtruded on the public; for, let the husband be right, or let him be wrong, there is always a sympathy existing for women which is certain to give the man the worst of it.
    Benjamin Haydon
    British artist (1786 - 1846)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • John Heywood The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.
    John Heywood
    English writer, playwright and poet (1497 - 1580)
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  • Will Durant The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
    Will Durant
    American writer, historian, and philosopher (1885 - 1981)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton The madman is not the man who has lost his reason. He is the man who has lost everything except his reason.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Jean Genet The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.
    Jean Genet
    French playwright and author (1910 - 1986)
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  • Thomas Hardy The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.
    Thomas Hardy
    British writer and poet (1840 - 1928)
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  • Bill Cunningham The main thing I love about street photography is that you find the answers you don't see at the fashion shows. You find information for readers so they can visualize themselves.
    Bill Cunningham
    American fashion photographer
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