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Quotes 1601 till 1620 of 3340.

  • Bess Myerson Mama never told me, 'Bess, you did good.' She wanted the best for us and she was an incredible administrator. She ran those three kids, that house, the whole bit. But if I looked fine, she'd find something wrong - the color, the hem... I used to tell her, 'Mama, don't worry when you're not with me, because you're with me.'
    Bess Myerson
    American politician and model (1924 - 2014)
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  • Sir William Temple Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.
    Sir William Temple
    British Diplomat, Essayist (1628 - 1699)
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  • A. W. Tozer Man appears for a little while to laugh and weep, to work and play, and then to go to make room for those who shall follow him in the never-ending cycle.
    A. W. Tozer
    American Christian pastor, preacher and author
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  • Oscar Wilde Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Meister Eckhart Man goes far away or near but God never goes far-off; he is always standing close at hand, and even if he cannot stay within he goes no further than the door.
    Meister Eckhart
    German mystic (1260 - 1328)
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  • William Hazlitt Man is a make-believe animal - he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Baltasar Gracian Man is born a barbarian, and only raises himself above the beast by culture.
    Baltasar Gracian
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Lord George Byron Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Boris Pasternak Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Hans J. Morgenthau Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.
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  • William Cowper Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
    William Cowper
    English poet (1731 - 1800)
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  • Bernard Williams Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.
    Bernard Williams
    English philosopher (1929 - 2003)
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  • Eric Hoffer Man was nature's mistake - she neglected to finish him - and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Nelson Mandela Man's goodness is a flame that can be hidden but never extinguished.
    Nelson Mandela
    South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and political leader (1918 - 2013)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Man's mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Lillian Smith Man, born of woman, has found it a hard thing to forgive her for giving him birth. The patriarchal protest against the ancient matriarch has borne strange fruit through the years.
    Lillian Smith
    American writer (1897 - 1966)
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