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A man likes his wife to be
just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness,
and just stupid enough to admire it.
- Israel Zangwill
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The only true love is love at first sight;
second sight dispels it.
- Israel Zangwill
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln) 
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
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Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
All things share the same breath -
the beast, the tree, the man...
the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.
- Chief Seattle (attributed)
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
The wise man does not lay up his own treasures.
The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
- Lao Tzu
The wise man in the storm prays God,
not for safety from danger,
but for deliverance from fear.
It is the storm within which endangers him,
not the storm without.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The full measure of a man is
not to be found in the man himself,
but in the colors and textures that
come alive in others because of him.
- Albert Schweitzer
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men
who walked through the huts comforting others,
giving away their last piece of bread...
They offer sufficient proof that everything
can be taken from a man but one thing:
to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,
to choose one's own way.
- Viktor E. Frankl
The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was:
"If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?"
But... the good Samaritan reversed the question:
"If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?"
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If a man is called to be a street sweeper,
he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted,
or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts
of heaven and earth will pause to say,
here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Non-violence requires a double faith,
faith in God and also faith in man.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.
- George Savile
We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me,
that man with all his noble qualities...
still bears in his bodily frame
the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.
- Charles Darwin
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
- Oscar Wilde
Every man must decide whether he will
walk in the light of creative altruism
or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
As soon as man does not take his existence for granted,
but beholds it as something
unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.
- Albert Schweitzer
Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
- Albert Schweitzer
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing,
and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
- George Bernard Shaw
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.
- Seneca
When the tempest rages, when the thunders roar,
and the lightnings blaze around us
it is then that the truly brave man stands firm at his post.
- Luther Martin
One man with courage makes a majority.
- old saying probably repeated by Andrew Jackson
(falsely attributed to Jefferson)
If the stars should appear
but one night every thousand years
how man would marvel and stare.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Early to bed and early to rise,
makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
- Benjamin Franklin
All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy.
What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
- Carl Jung
If you talk to a man in a language he understands,
that goes to his head.
If you talk to him in his language,
that goes to his heart.
- Nelson Mandela
He is a wise man who does not grieve
for the things which he has not,
but rejoices for those which he has.
- Epictetus
If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought,
happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
- The Buddha
Many a man fails as an original thinker
simply because his memory is too good.
- Nietzsche
Dear Father in heaven, I'm not a praying man,
but if you're up there and you can hear me ...
show me the way... show me the way.
- It's a Wonderful Life (1946 movie)
Every man and woman is born into the world
to do something unique and something distinctive;
and if he or she does not do it,
it will never be done.
- Benjamin E. Mays
A man who as a physical being
is always turned toward the outside,
thinking that his happiness lies outside him,
finally turns inward and
discovers that the source is within him.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Mystery creates wonder, and wonder is the basis
of man's desire to understand.
- Neil Armstrong
A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences,
in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures -
and that is the basis of all human morality.
- John F. Kennedy
There is nothing with which every man is so afraid
as getting to know how enormously much
he is capable of doing and becoming.
- Soren Kierkegaard
During the first period of a man's life
the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Circumstances make man, not man circumstances.
- Mark Twain
Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only
by the man who is as well organized
in his individuality as the mass itself.
- Carl Jung
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If a man empties his purse into his head,
no man can take it away from him.
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
- Benjamin Franklin
A great secret of success is to go through life
as a man who never gets used up.
- Albert Schweitzer
A wise man hears one word and understands two.
- Yiddish Proverb
Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone
who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson
A man's good name is his best monument
- from an old churchyard at Lockerbie, Scotland
A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams.
- Yiddish Proverb
The gem cannot be polished without friction,
nor man perfected without trials.
- Confucius
If a man does his best, what else is there?
- George S. Patton
When I look back on all these worries,
I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed
that he had had a lot of trouble in his life,
most of which had never happened.
- Winston Churchill
It is not the man who has too little,
but the man who craves more, that is poor.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head,
and knows not that it brings abundance
to drive away the hunger.
- Saint Basil
I cannot trust a man to control others
who cannot control himself.
- Robert E. Lee
The fear of death follows from the fear of life.
A man who lives fully, is prepared to die at any time.
- Mark Twain
Take a chance! All life is a chance.
The man who goes farthest is generally
the one who is willing to do and dare.
- Dale Carnegie
If there is anything that a man can do well,
I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
- Abraham Lincoln
The wise man looks into space,
and does not regard the small as too little,
nor the great as too much;
for he knows that there is no limit to dimensions.
- Lao Tzu
Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be,
at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day,
teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.
- Chinese Proverb
Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every man dies. Not every man truly lives.
- the movie Braveheart
Intent is what can make a man succeed
when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated.
- Carlos Castaneda
The man who is successful is the man who is useful.
- Bourke Cockran
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