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Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect,
but of all human contemplations,
the most abhorrent is body without mind.
- Thomas Jefferson
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Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy
than to imprison a person
or keep him in prison because he is unpopular.
This is really the test of civilization.
- Winston Churchill
I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.
- Thomas Jefferson
To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas
he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
- Thomas Jefferson
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
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)
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
I cannot trust a man to control others
who cannot control himself.
- Robert E. Lee
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
If a man does not know what port he is steering for,
no wind is favorable to him.
- Seneca
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I wept because I had no shoes
until I met a man who had no feet.
- old Persian Proverb
Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
- Lao Tzu
Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
- Albert Schweitzer
Behind an able man there are always other able men.
- Chinese proverb
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
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
Each man is the architect of his own fate.
- Appius Claudius
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.
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 man who has no imagination has no wings.
- Muhammad Ali
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
An honest man is always a child.
- Socrates
A man can succeed at almost anything
for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
- Charles M. Schwab
The man who is successful is the man who is useful.
- Bourke Cockran
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe,
that lures him to evil ways.
- The Buddha
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man,
but he is brave five minutes longer.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you think you are beaten, you are.
If you think you dare not, you don't.
If you'd like to win, but think you can't
It's almost a cinch you won't.
Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man;
But soon or late the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.
- Anonymous
If you stand up and be counted,
from time to time you may get yourself knocked down.
But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again.
A man flattened by conformity stays down for good.
- Thomas J. Watson
Intent is what can make a man succeed
when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated.
- Carlos Castaneda
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)
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
- Abraham Lincoln
A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.
- W. C. Fields
A great man is always willing to be little.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
If a man can... make a better mousetrap,
the world will make a beaten path to his door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
The fear of death follows from the fear of life.
A man who lives fully, is prepared to die at any time.
- Mark Twain
A man in debt is so far a slave.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If thou wilt make a man happy,
add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
- Epicurus
Try not to become a man of success,
but rather try to become a man of value.
- Albert Einstein
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 great secret of success is to go through life
as a man who never gets used up.
- Albert Schweitzer
The gem cannot be polished without friction,
nor man perfected without trials.
- Confucius
Anger is a killing thing:
it kills the man who angers,
for each rage leaves him less than he had been before -
it takes something from him.
- Louis L'Amour
There is no limit to what a man can do
or where he can go,
if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.
- Robert Woodruff
To measure the man, measure his heart.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
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.
No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready
for his opportunity when it comes.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
- B. C. Forbes
That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.
- Henry David Thoreau
Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed,
and in such desperate enterprises?
If a man does not keep pace with his companions,
perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
- Henry David Thoreau
All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.
- Meister Eckhart
Every man dies. Not every man truly lives.
- the movie Braveheart
Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
A man should do his job so well that the living,
the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks-
if we agree with him.
- Mark Twain
Early to bed and early to rise,
makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
- Benjamin Franklin
A man can fail many times,
but he isn't a failure until
he begins to blame somebody else.
- John Burroughs
If the stars should appear
but one night every thousand years
how man would marvel and stare.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
- John F. Kennedy
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus
Many a man fails as an original thinker
simply because his memory is too good.
- Nietzsche
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
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 does his best, what else is there?
- George S. Patton
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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