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If a man does not make new acquaintances
as he advances through life,
he will soon find himself alone.
A man, sir, should keep his friendships in constant repair.
- Samuel Johnson
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The chains of habit are too weak to be felt
until they are too strong to be broken.
- Samuel Johnson
A wise man will make haste to forgive,
because he knows the true value of time,
and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
- Samuel Johnson
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
- Samuel Johnson
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Great works are performed not by strength,
but by perseverance.
- Samuel Johnson
The feeling of friendship is like that
of being comfortably filled with roast beef;
love, like being enlivened with champagne.
- Samuel Johnson
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone
who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson
Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.
- Samuel Johnson [also attributed to Oscar Wilde]
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
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea,
never regains its original dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The man who can't dance thinks the band is no good.
- Polish Proverb
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
Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
The man of genius inspires us with
a boundless confidence in our own powers.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
- Anonymous
No man is a failure who enjoys life.
- William Feather
A man who doesn't trust himself
can never really trust anyone else.
- Cardinal De Retz
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
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
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
Of course I am afraid. What sane man is not?
- Luciano Pavarotti
A man who dares to waste one hour of time
has not discovered the value of life.
- Charles Darwin
A man too busy to take care of his health is like
a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.
- Spanish Proverb
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
Freedom is never dear at any price.
It is the breath of life.
What would a man not pay for living?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I don't like that man.
I must get to know him better.
- Abraham Lincoln
Interdependence is and ought to be
as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency.
Man is a social being.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates
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
What is happiness except the simple harmony
between a man and the life he leads?
- Albert Camus
The man with insight enough to admit his limitations
comes nearest to perfection.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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
A man must be both stupid and uncharitable
who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
- Joseph Addison
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
All religions must be tolerated...
for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
- Epictetus
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is,
he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
- Helen Keller
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
Each man's life touches so many other lives.
- It's a Wonderful Life (1946 movie)
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
- Francis Bacon
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.
No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- Elbert Hubbard
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)
Every man has his own courage,
and is betrayed because he seeks in himself
the courage of other persons.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
- Socrates
The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?
- Henry David Thoreau
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
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
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
- Mark Twain
Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
- Carl Jung
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
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right.
Men will believe what they see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth,
and if a man does not know what a thing is,
it is at least an increase in knowledge
if he knows what it is not.
- Carl Jung
A man should look for what is,
and not for what he thinks should be.
- Albert Einstein
When you are offended at any man's fault,
turn to yourself and study your own failings.
Then you will forget your anger.
- Epictetus
Circumstances make man, not man circumstances.
- Mark Twain
If a man empties his purse into his head,
no man can take it away from him.
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
- Benjamin Franklin
A man who as a physical being
is always turned toward the outside,
thinking that his happiness lies outside him,
finally turns inward and
discovers that the source is within him.
- Soren Kierkegaard
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
- John F. Kennedy
It is not the man who has too little,
but the man who craves more, that is poor.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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