Quotes 3981 till 4000 of 4652.
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To every man of vision the clear Voice speaks; there is no great leadership where there is not a mystic. Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside themselves was superior to circumstance. To choose the sure thing is treason to the soul.
The Man Nobody Knows (1924) On Jesus, in Ch. 1 : The Executive -
To every man there openeth A way, and ways, and a way. And the high soul climbs the high way, And the low soul gropes the low: And in between, on the misty flats, The rest drift to and fro. But to every man there openeth A high way and a low, And every man decideth. The way his soul shall go.
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To exist is equivalent to an act of faith, a protest against the truth, an interminable prayer. As soon as they consent to live, the unbeliever and the man of faith are fundamentally the same, since both have made the only decision that defines a being.
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To force a man to pay for the violation of his own liberty is indeed an addition of insult to injury.
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To get anywhere, or even live a long time, a man has to guess, and guess right, over and over again, without enough data for a logical answer.
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To give a generous hope to a man of his own nature, is to enrich him immeasurably.
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To give a man full knowledge of morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament.
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To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.
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To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture.
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To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.
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To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.
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To have a man who can flirt is next thing to indispensable to a leader of society.
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To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
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To have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact, talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you.
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To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.
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To judge a man by his weakest link or deed is like judging the power of the ocean by one wave.
Aantekening op zijn bijbel -
To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports; when we succeed; it betrays us.
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To leave the world a little better than you found it. That's the best a man can ever do.
Timbuktu (2010) 59 -
To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead - somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man - somewhere these, too, come together.
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