Every Man Quotes
1377 Every Man quotes by 770 unique authors
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The motivating factor behind God's redemptive plan for every man and woman is His love for us. He not only loves us, He so loves…
— O. S. Hawkins
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Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments; any enlargement of wishes is therefore equally destructive to…
— Samuel Johnson
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That the happiness of man may still remain imperfect, as wants in this place are easily supplied, new wants likewise are easily created; every man,…
— Samuel Johnson
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Every bird has its decoy, and every man is led and misled in his own peculiar way.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The recognition of the sanctity of the life of every man is the first and only basis of all morality.
— Leo Tolstoy
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Every man whose business it is to think knows that he must for part of the day create about himself a pool of silence.
— Walter Lippmann
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Every man bears something within him that, if it were publicly announced, would excite feelings of aversion.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Every man of sound brain whom you meet knows something worth knowing better than yourself. A man, on the whole, is a better preceptor than…
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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It is the doctrine of the popular music-masters, that whoever can speak can sing. So, probably, every man is eloquent once in his life. Our…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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As every man is hunted by his own daemon, vexed by his own disease, this checks all his activity.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Every man wishes to pursue his occupation and to enjoy the fruits of his labours and the produce of his property in peace and safety,…
— Thomas Jefferson
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It is not enough merely to exist. It's not enough to say, "I'm earning enough to support my family. I do my work well. I'm…
— Albert Schweitzer
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The ideal woman which is in every man's mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand. The…
— William Faulkner
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If every man works at that for which nature fitted him, the cows will be well tended.
— Jean de La Fontaine
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Every man may be observed to have a certain strain of lamentation, some peculiar theme of complaint on which he dwells in his moments of…
— Samuel Johnson
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Every man is, or hopes to be, an idler.
— Samuel Johnson
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Every man, however hopeless his pretensions may appear, has some project by which he hopes to rise to reputation; some art by which he imagines…
— Samuel Johnson
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Every man who deserves to be famous knows it is not worth the trouble.
— Fernando Pessoa
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I am searching for that which every man seeks-peace and rest.
— Dante Alighieri
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The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself.
— William Godwin
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The question that faces every man born into this world is not what should be his purpose, which he should set about to achieve, but…
— Lin Yutang
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Every man has by the law of nature a right to such a waste portion of the earth as is necessary for his subsistence.
— Thomas More
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In general satire, every man perceives A slight attack, yet neither fears nor grieves.
— George Crabbe
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Every man wants to connect his life with something he thinks eternal.
— Andrew Mellon
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Surely in much talk there cannot choose but be much vanity. Loquacity is the fistula of the mind,--ever-running and almost incurable, let every man, therefore,…
— Herbert Spencer
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