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Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
- Francis Bacon
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Little do men perceive what solitude is,
and how far it extendeth.
For a crowd is not company,
and faces are but a gallery of pictures,
and talk but a tinkling cymbal,
where there is no love.
- Francis Bacon
This communicating of a man's self to his friend
works two contrary effects;
for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.
- Francis Bacon
We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
- Francis Bacon
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Those that want friends to open themselves unto
are cannibals of their own hearts.
- Francis Bacon
A man cannot speak to his son, but as a father;
to his wife, but as a husband;
to his enemy, but upon terms:
whereas a friend may speak, as the case requires,
and not as it sorteth with the person.
- Francis Bacon
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
The man form is higher than the angel form;
of all forms it is the highest.
Man is the highest being in creation,
because he aspires to freedom.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
A man who dares to waste one hour of time
has not discovered the value of life.
- Charles Darwin
Interdependence is and ought to be
as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency.
Man is a social being.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The man with insight enough to admit his limitations
comes nearest to perfection.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.
No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- Elbert Hubbard
All religions must be tolerated...
for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
- Epictetus
A man must be both stupid and uncharitable
who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
- Joseph Addison
What is happiness except the simple harmony
between a man and the life he leads?
- Albert Camus
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is,
he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
- Helen Keller
Freedom is never dear at any price.
It is the breath of life.
What would a man not pay for living?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Each man's life touches so many other lives.
- It's a Wonderful Life (1946 movie)
The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.
- Anatole France
Experience is not what happens to a man.
It is what a man does with what happens to him.
- Aldous Huxley
Of course I am afraid. What sane man is not?
- Luciano Pavarotti
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation
can be trusted to act humanely
or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
- Bertrand Russell
A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker.
A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.
- The Buddha
The man who can't dance thinks the band is no good.
- Polish Proverb
Hardly a man in the world has an opinion
upon morals, political, or religion
which he got otherwise than
through his associations and sympathies.
- Mark Twain
If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea,
never regains its original dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
All things share the same breath -
the beast, the tree, the man...
the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.
- Chief Seattle (attributed)
Habit is habit,
and not to be flung out of the window by any man,
but coaxed down-stairs a step at a time.
- Mark Twain
It is easy enough to be pleasant
When life flows by like a song,
But the man worth while is the one who will smile
When everything goes dead wrong.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Every man has his own courage,
and is betrayed because he seeks in himself
the courage of other persons.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Each man is afraid of his neighbor's disapproval -
a thing which, to the general run of the human race,
is more dreaded than wolves and death.
- Mark Twain
Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I don't like that man.
I must get to know him better.
- Abraham Lincoln
A man too busy to take care of his health is like
a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.
- Spanish Proverb
It doesn't matter how long my hair is
or what color my skin is
or whether I'm a woman or a man.
- John Lennon
A man who doesn't trust himself
can never really trust anyone else.
- Cardinal De Retz
He is a man of courage who does not run away,
but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
- Socrates
Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
No man is a failure who enjoys life.
- William Feather
Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
- Socrates
Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty;
it is its own reward.
Everything else is in God's hands.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
- Carl Jung
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man.
And man can be as big as he wants.
No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
- John F. Kennedy
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
- Anonymous
The man of genius inspires us with
a boundless confidence in our own powers.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
- Mark Twain
Revenge... is like a rolling stone,
which, when a man hath forced up a hill,
will return upon him with a greater violence,
and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.
- Albert Schweitzer
The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?
- Henry David Thoreau
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men
who walked through the huts comforting others,
giving away their last piece of bread...
They offer sufficient proof that everything
can be taken from a man but one thing:
to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,
to choose one's own way.
- Viktor E. Frankl
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.
- Henry David Thoreau
During the first period of a man's life
the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
- Soren Kierkegaard
As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
- The Bible
If a man is called to be a street sweeper,
he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted,
or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts
of heaven and earth will pause to say,
here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
As soon as man does not take his existence for granted,
but beholds it as something
unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.
- Albert Schweitzer
A man should look for what is,
and not for what he thinks should be.
- Albert Einstein
A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams.
- Yiddish Proverb
There is nothing with which every man is so afraid
as getting to know how enormously much
he is capable of doing and becoming.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Many a man fails as an original thinker
simply because his memory is too good.
- Nietzsche
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live
that his happiness shall depend
as little as possible on external things.
- Epictetus
A man is what he thinks about all day long.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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