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The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life, and, having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you.
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The man, most man, works best for men: and, if most man indeed, he gets his manhood plainest from his soul.
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The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a ''But''.
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The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
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The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.
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The mental flexibility of the wise man permits him to keep an open mind and enables him to readjust himself whenever it becomes necessary for a change.
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The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him.
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The mind of man is capable of anything - because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future.
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The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up.
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The mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-à-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.
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The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.
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The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
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The moment a man begins to talk about technique that's proof that he is fresh out of ideas.
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The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo, the more he can remember the more divine his life becomes.
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The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute.
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The more a man knows about himself in relation to every kind of experience, the greater his chance of suddenly, one fine morning, realizing who in fact he is...
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The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.
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The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.
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