Man Quotes

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If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one... — William Cowper
The great fault of all ethics hitherto has been that they believed themselves to have to deal only with the relations of man to man.… — Albert Schweitzer
Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are… — Henry Ward Beecher
There is nothing the wise man does reluctantly. — Seneca the Younger
Every man's path is for himself; let him accomplish his own desires that he may thus be able to rise above them to the eternal… — Hazrat Inayat Khan
In sickness, with its attendant pain, patience is required. If the only perfect man who ever lived-even Jesus of Nazareth-was called upon to endure great… — Thomas S. Monson
Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity. — Seneca the Younger
As days lengthen into weeks and months and even years of adversity, the hurt grows deeper. The Church cannot hope to save a man on… — D. Todd Christofferson
That which lies before the human race is a constant struggle to maintain and improve, in opposition to State of Nature, the State of Art… — Thomas Huxley
We have no knowledge, that is, no general principles drawn from the contemplation of particular facts, but what has been built up by pleasure, and… — William Wordsworth
I finally understand / for a woman it ain't easy tryin to raise a man / You always was committed / A poor single mother… — Tupac Shakur
A mother's yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man. — George Eliot
A man never sees all that his mother has been to him until it's too late to let her know that he sees it. — William Dean Howells
Every man, for the sake of the great blessed Mother in Heaven, and for the love of his own little mother on earth, should handle… — Alfred Lord Tennyson
O be very sure That no man will learn anything at all, Unless he first will learn humility. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism. — Franz Grillparzer
A man who has humility will have acquired in the last reaches of his beliefs the saving doubt of his own certainty. — Walter Lippmann
Practically everyone now bemoans Western man's sense of alienation, lack of community, and inability to find ways of organizing society for human ends. We have… — Jean Baker Miller
For a certain type of woman who risks losing her identity in a man, there are all those questions . . . until you get… — Anouk Aimee
I received a letter just before I left office from a man. I don't know why he chose to write it, but I'm glad he… — Ronald Reagan
Either the Anglo-Saxon race will possess the Pacific slope or the Mongolians will possess it. We have this day to choose... whether legislation shall be… — James G. Blaine
[E]very Man who comes among us, and takes up a piece of Land, becomes a Citizen, and by our Constitution has a Voice in Elections,… — Benjamin Franklin
...there is an optimal balance, depending on the manner of man's life, between the density of human population and the tolerances of nature. This balance,… — George F. Kennan
If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important. — Bertrand Russell
The relationship between man and space is none other than dwelling, strictly thought and spoken. — Martin Heidegger

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