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- Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers…
- The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
- A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
- Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil…
- Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.
- The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.
- A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner.
- A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
- A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.
- A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.
- Clever men are good, but they are not the best.
- Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.
- Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
- No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
- For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.
- No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.
- Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.
- No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.
- The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.
- Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.
- Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.
- If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk,…
- Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.
- The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.
- No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.
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