Quotes with plains-man

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  • John S. Bonnell No man or woman has achieved an effective personality who is not self-disciplined. Such discipline must not be an end in itself, but must be directed to the development of resolute Christian character.
    John S. Bonnell
    American pastor
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  • Denis Waitley No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.
    Denis Waitley
    American motivational speaker, writer and consultant (1933 - )
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  • Alan Alda No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.
    Alan Alda
    American actor, director, screenwriter, and author. (1936 - )
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  • John Steinbeck No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.
    John Steinbeck
    American author (1902 - 1968)
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  • Oliver Cromwell No man rises so high as he knows not whither he goes.
    Oliver Cromwell
    Parliamentarian General, Lord Protector of England (1599 - 1658)
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  • Thomas Carlyle No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • George Mcgovern No man should advocate a course in private that he's ashamed to admit in public.
    George Mcgovern
    American historian, author (1922 - 2012)
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  • A. W. Tozer No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in seeking to know and do the will of God, leaving to Christ the matter of how happy he should be.
    A. W. Tozer
    American Christian pastor, preacher and author
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  • J. Robert Oppenheimer No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.
    J. Robert Oppenheimer
    American theoretical physicist and professor of physics (1904 - 1967)
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  • Hitopadesa No man should ever display his bravery unless he is prepared for battle, nor bear the marks of defiance, until he has experienced the abilities of his enemy.
    Hitopadesa
    Indian text in Sanskrit
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  • Honoré de Balzac No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
    Honoré de Balzac
    French writer (1799 - 1850)
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  • Bernard M. Baruch No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby-so helpless and so ridiculous.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Lord Chesterfield No man tastes pleasures truly, who does not earn them by previous business; and few people do business well, who do nothing else.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Woodrow Wilson No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • Anthony Trollope No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Ezra Pound No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Socrates No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades, that of government.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Gerald W. Johnson No man was ever endowed with a right without being at the same time saddled with a responsibility.
    Gerald W. Johnson
    American journalist, editor, essayist, historian and biographer (1890 - 1980)
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