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A man cannot speak but he judges himself, and the quotes say that only a greater person can truly criticize him. They also claim that giving money to a sufferer is just a bribe that delays real payment. These thoughts explore self‑assessment, the limits of criticism, and the hidden cost of charity.

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Good men must not obey the laws too well.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.

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When it's dark enough men see stars.

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A man cannot speak but he judges himself

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We expect a great man to be a good reader.

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A man is known by the books he reads.

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Every man is eloquent once in his life.

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It is one soul which animates all men.

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We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count.

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The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language.

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It is a tie between men to have read the same book.

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A great man stands on God. A small man on a great man.

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Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

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Every man contemplates an angel in his future self.

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Self reliance, the height and perfection of man, is reliance on God.

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None believeth in the soul of man, but only in some man or person old and departed.

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Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

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Men such as they are, very naturally seek money or power; and power because it is as good as money.

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Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.

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The socialism of our day has done good service in setting men to thinking how certain civilizing benefits, now only enjoyed by…

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Nor sequent centuries could hit Orbit and sum of SHAKSPEARE's wit. The men who lived with him became Poets, for the air…

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Thus is man made equal to every event. He can face danger for the right. A poor, tender, painful body, he can…

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Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until…

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A man comes to measure his greatness by the regrets, envies and hatreds of his competitors.

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Very few of our race can be said to be yet finished men. We still carry sticking to us some remains of…

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As men get on in life, they acquire a love for sincerity, and somewhat less solicitude to be lulled or amused. In…

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We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse…

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Instead of feeling a poverty when we encounter a great man, let us treat the new comer like a travelling geologist, who…

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I know nothing which life has to offer so satisfying as the profound good understanding, which can subsist, after much exchange ofgood…

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Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier. In the divided or social state these functions are parcelled out…

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I do not know what arguments mean in reference to any expression of a thought. I delight in telling what I think;…

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In this distribution of functions, the scholar is the delegated intellect. In the right state, he is, Man Thinking. In the degenerate…

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Behind every individual closes organization; before him opens liberty,--the Better, the Best. The first and worse races are dead.The second and imperfect…

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Skepticism is unbelief in cause and effect. A man does not see, that, as he eats, so he thinks: as he deals,…

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How many attractions for us have our passing fellows in the streets, both male and female, which our ethics forbid us to…

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The poet alone knows astronomy, chemistry, vegetation, and animation, for he does not stop at these facts, but employs them as signs.…

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Exaggeration is in the course of things. Nature sends no creature, no man into the world, without adding a small excess of…

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If there be any man who thinks the ruin of a race of men a small matter, compared with the last decoration…

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The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible; but all natural objects make a kindred impression, when…

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The trail of the serpent reaches into all the lucrative professions and practices of man. Each has its own wrongs. Each finds…

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The order of things consents to virtue.

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A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine.

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No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews.

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I am; therefore, I had nothing better to do than to think.

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In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern…

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The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a…

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