Man Quotes
44718 Man quotes by 11542 unique authors
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A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is…
— Joseph Addison
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God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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I've always been a clown trapped in a leading man's body.
— James Van Der Beek
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Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in…
— Joseph Addison
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If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth,…
— Joseph Addison
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It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of…
— Joseph Addison
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To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people.
— Max Beerbohm
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Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman.
— Ludwig van Beethoven
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Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.
— Ludwig van Beethoven
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What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that…
— Alexander Graham Bell
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A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself.
— Alexander Graham Bell
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A man is only as good as what he loves.
— Saul Bellow
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In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that He did not also limit his stupidity.
— Konrad Adenauer
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