Man
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Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
Every man has three characters — that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
No difficulty can discourage, no obstacle dismay, no trouble dishearten the man who has acquired the art of being alive. Difficulties are but dares of fate, obstacles but hurdles to try his skill, troubles but bitter tonics to give him strength; and he rises higher and looms greater after each encounter with adversity.
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.
Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth — look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.
I was attracted to opera when I was 15 or 16. A very rich man in England bankrupted himself to put on a lot of opera during the war, but he converted a lot of people, myself included, in the process.
As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.
The world is getting to be such a dangerous place, a man is lucky to get out of it alive.
Man produces evil as a bee produces honey.
When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.
A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained to a certainty that the man who unthinkingly accepts things can never reach.
How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man.
Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.
A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.
No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.
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