Man
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The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.
A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.
I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries.
No man is infallible.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.
No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.
Man is not the enemy here, but the fellow victim.
Ethiopia didn't just blow my mind; it opened my mind. Anyway, on our last day at this orphanage a man handed me his baby and said, 'Would you take my son with you?' He knew, in Ireland, that his son would live, and that in Ethiopia, his son would die.
A man in the house is worth two in the street.
Thanksgiving, man. Not a good day to be my pants.
A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity.
Maybe women sometimes wish that a man would come along and buy them.
A man does what he must — in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures — and that is the basis of all human morality.
Let no such man be trusted.
The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.
A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.
A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.
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