Quotes 301 till 320 of 4532.
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Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
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Self discipline is that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
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Shame is the feeling you have when you agree with the woman who loves you that you are the man she thinks you are.
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Taking something from one man and making it worse is plagiarism.
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That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy.
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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
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The generative energy, which, when we are loose, dissipates and makes us unclean, when we are continent invigorates and inspires us. Chastity is the flowering of man; and what are called Genius, Heroism, Holiness, and the like, are but various fruits which succeed it.
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The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the woman all that is not himself, and from that one resultant, from that embrace, comes every new action.
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The humorous man recognizes that absolute purity, absolute justice, absolute logic and perfection are beyond human achievement and that men have been able to live happily for thousands of years in a state of genial frailty.
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The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
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The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.
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The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he justly entitled.
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The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready, and it may be a long time before they get off.
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The man who never has money enough to pay his debts has too much of something else.
Sparks from the philosopher's stone (1882) -
The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
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The punishment of criminals should serve a purpose. When a man is hanged he is useless.
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The superior man is modest in his speech but exceeds in his actions.
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