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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap, than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • W. M. Thackeray If a man character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.
    W. M. Thackeray
    Indian-born, British novelist (1811 - 1863)
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  • Henry David Thoreau If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Benjamin Franklin If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Albrecht Durer If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle.
    Albrecht Durer
    German painter (1471 - 1528)
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  • George S. Patton If a man does his best, what else is there?
    George S. Patton
    American Army General during World War II (1885 - 1945)
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  • Seneca If a man does not know what port he is steering for, no wind is favorable to him.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Samuel Johnson 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.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Arthur Machen 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.
    Arthur Machen
    Welsh author and mystic (1863 - 1947)
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  • James A. Michener If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life.
    James A. Michener
    American writer (1907 - 1997)
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  • Sigmund Freud 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.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • Sam Rayburn If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is.
    Sam Rayburn
    American politician (1882 - 1961)
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  • George S. Patton If a man has done his best, what else is there?
    George S. Patton
    American Army General during World War II (1885 - 1945)
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  • Thomas Wolfe 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.
    Thomas Wolfe
    American writer and journalist (1900 - 1938)
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  • Martin Luther King If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Herodotus 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.
    Herodotus
    Greek historian (484 - 425)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman 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.'
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Martin Luther King 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.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Arnold Rothstein 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.
    Arnold Rothstein
    American racketeer, businessman and gambler (1882 - 1928)
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  • Socrates If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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