Quotes with one-man

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  • Bram Stoker He may not enter anywhere at the first, unless there be some one of the household who bid him to come, though afterwards he can come as he please.
    Bram Stoker
    Irish author (1847 - 1912)
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  • John Donne He must pull out his own eyes, and see no creature, before he can say, he sees no God; He must be no man, and quench his reasonable soul, before he can say to himself, there is no God.
    John Donne
    English poet (1572 - 1631)
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  • Abraham Lincoln He reminds me of the man who murdered both his parents, and then when the sentence was about to be pronounced, pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was orphan.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Francis Bacon He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Thomas à Kempis He that loveth, flieth, runneth, and rejoiceth. He is free, and cannot be held in. He giveth all for all, and hath all in all, because he resteth in one highest above all things, from whom all that is good flows and proceeds.
    Thomas à Kempis
    Dutch medieval Augustinian canon, writer and mystic (1380 - 1471)
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  • Jeremy Taylor He that speaketh against his own reason speaks against his own conscience, and therefore it is certain that no man serves God with a good conscience who serves him against his reason.
    Jeremy Taylor
    British churchman and writer (1613 - 1667)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton He that thinks he is the happiest man, really is so. But he that thinks he is the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Ben Jonson He threatens many that hath injured one.
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Jonathan Swift He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
    Source: Polite Conversation (1738)
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Mario Puzo He was a degenerate gambler. That is, a man who gambled simply to gamble and must lose. As a hero who goes to war must die. Show me a gambler and I'll show you a loser, show me a hero and I'll show you a corpse.
    Mario Puzo
    American author, screenwriter and journalist (1920 - 1999)
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  • Ben E. King He was a manager, one of the singers, I guess talent coordinator for the local talent in Harlem. His name was Lover Patterson. He was living right across the street from where my dad had his restaurant. I guess he saw a lot of kids come in, a lot of my buddies.
    Ben E. King
    American soul and R&B singer (1938 - 2015)
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  • Joseph Heller He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.
    Joseph Heller
    American author (1923 - 1999)
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville He was as great as a man can be without morality.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Charles Kingsley He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.
    Charles Kingsley
    British writer (1819 - 1875)
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  • Alexandre Dumas père He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied, with which he did not doubt, as with the lever for which Archimedes sought, they should succeed in moving the world, when some one tapped gently at his door.
    Alexandre Dumas père
    French writer (1802 - 1870)
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  • Heywood Brown He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a well remembered door.
    Heywood Brown
     
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  • Buddha He who gives away shall have real gain. He who subdues himself shall be free; he shall cease to be a slave of passions. The righteous man casts off evil, and by rooting out lust, bitterness, and illusion do we reach Nirvana.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Herman Melville He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
    Herman Melville
    American author (1819 - 1891)
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