Quotes 3901 till 3920 of 4539.
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To judge a man by his weakest link or deed is like judging the power of the ocean by one wave.
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To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports; when we succeed; it betrays us.
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To leave the world a little better than you found it. That's the best a man can ever do.
Timbuktu (2010) 59 -
To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead - somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man - somewhere these, too, come together.
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To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.
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To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
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To me, there is something superbly symbolic in the fact that an astronaut, sent up as assistant to a series of computers, found that he worked more accurately and more intelligently than they. Inside the capsule, man is still in charge.
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To offer a man unsolicited advice is to presume that he doesn't know what to do or that he can't do it on his own.
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To paraphrase Jane Austen, it is a truth universally acknowledged that a married man in possession of a vast fortune must be in want of a newer, younger wife.
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To preach long, loud, and Damnation, is the way to be cried up. We love a man that damns us, and we run after him again to save us.
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To prevent the recurrence of misery is, alas! beyond the power of man.
An Essay on The Principle of Population (1798) V, 25, 4-5 -
To procrastinate seems inherent in man, for if you do to-day that you may enjoy to-morrow it is but deferring the enjoyment; so that to be idle or industrious, vicious or virtuous, is but with a view of procrastinating the one or the other.
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To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.
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To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach.
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To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ideal man whose image we have built up on the basis of a certain few.
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To see a man beaten not by a better opponent but by himself is a tragedy.
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To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
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To shoot a man because one disagrees with his interpretation of Darwin or Hegel is a sinister tribute to the supremacy of ideas in human affairs - but a tribute nevertheless.
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