Quotes 2361 till 2380 of 4532.
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Man proposes, but God disposes.
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Man reckons with immortality, and forgets to reckon with death.
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Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort.
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Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.
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Man shapes himself through decision that shape his environment.
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Man should be master of his environment, not its slave. That is what freedom means.
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Man should beware of letting his religion spoil his morality.
Source: The Life of William Ewart Gladstone II, 185 -
Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.
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Man staggers through life yapped at by his reason, pulled and shoved by his appetites, whispered to by fears, beckoned by hopes. Small wonder that what he craves most is self-forgetting.
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Man torturing man is a fiend beyond description. You turn a corner in the dark and there he is. You congeal into a bundle of inanimate fear. You become the very soul of anesthesia. But there is no escaping him. It is your turn now...
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Man tries to make for himself in the fashion that suits him best a simplified and intelligible picture of the world; he then tries to some extent to substitute this cosmos of his for the world of experience, and thus to overcome it.
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Man uses his intelligence less in the care of his own species than he does in his care of anything else he owns or governs.
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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.
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Man was created a little lower than the angels and has bin getting a little lower ever since.
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Man was created as a being who should constantly keep improving, a being who on reaching one goal sets a higher one.
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Man was formed for society.
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Man was lost if he went to a usurer, for the interest ran faster than a tiger upon him.
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Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
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Man was nature's mistake - she neglected to finish him - and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.
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