Quotes 1741 till 1760 of 4532.
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If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle.
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If a man does his best, what else is there?
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If a man does not know what port he is steering for, no wind is favorable to him.
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If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair.
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If a man dreams that he has committed a sin before which the sun hid his face, it is often safe to conjecture that, in sheer forgetfulness, he wore a red tie, or brown boots with evening dress.
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If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life.
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If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it.
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If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is.
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If a man has done his best, what else is there?
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If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has talent and uses only half of it, he has half failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.
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If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
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If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.
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If a man is a writer, everybody tiptoes around past the locked door of the breadwinner. But if you're an ordinary female housewife, people say, 'This is just something Barbara wanted to do; it's not professional.'
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If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
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If a man is dumb, someone is going to get the best of him, so why not you? If you don't, you're as dumb as he is.
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If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
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If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
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If a man is tongue-tied, don't laugh at him, but, rather, feel pity for him, as you would for a man with broken legs.
― Abraham Cahan
Belarusian-born Jewish American socialist newspaper editor, novelist, and politician -
If a man knew anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest; but he is such an ignorant peacock, that he goes bustling up and down, and hits on extraordinary discoveries.
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If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.
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