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I am the poet of the woman the same as the man, And I say it is as great to be a woman as to be a man, And I say there is nothing greater than the mother of a man.

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A great man scarcely knows how he dines, how he dresses; but without railing or precision, his living is natural and poetic.

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Man is never happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something which he thinks will make him so.

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It is rare to find a man who believes in his own thoughts or speaks that which he is created to say. As nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing, so nothing is more rare in any man than an act of his own...feel yourself, and be not daunted by things...The light by which we see this world comes out from the soul of the observer.

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I am no more annoyed when I think of the expression, than I should be annoyed by a man's opinion of a picture of mine, who had no eye for pictures; or of a piece of music of mine, who had no ear for music.

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Nature is thoroughly mediate. It is made to serve. It receives the dominion of man as meekly as the ass on which the Saviour rode.It offers all its kingdoms to man as the raw material which he may mould into what is useful. Man is never weary of working it up.

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This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.

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The world is nothing, the man is all; in yourself is the law of all nature, and you know not yet how a globule of sap ascends; in yourself slumbers the whole of Reason; it is for you to know all, it is for you to dare all.

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Even men of the noblest possible moral character are extremely susceptible to the influence of the physical charms of others. Modern, no less then Ancient History, supplies us with many most painful examples of what I refer to. If it were not so, indeed, History would be quite unreadable.

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For not many men, the proverb saith, can love a friend whom fortune prospereth unenvying.

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The man fitted for affairs and authority never considers individuals, but things and their consequences.

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The thought of death sits easy on the man Who has been born and dies among the mountains.

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Men are so stupid and concerned with their present needs, they will always let themselves be deceived.

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No man is an island unto himself.

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One of the great events in my life was my first meeting with Edison. This wonderful man, who had received no scientific training, yet had accomplished so much, filled me with amazement. I felt that the time I had spent studying languages, literature and art was wasted; though later, of course, I learned this was not so.

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The only difference is now more young black men are in the spotlight.

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The most important lesson that man can learn from life, is not that there is pain in this world, but that it is possible for him to transmute it into joy.

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I don't like to leave anything,' the man said. 'I don't like to leave things behind.

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The Lord let the house of a brute to the soul of a man, And the man said, "Am I your debtor?" And the Lord--"Not yet: but make it as clean as you can, And then I will let you a better.

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Those who are not schooled and practised in truth [who are not honest and upright men] can never manage aright the government, nor yet can those who spend their lives as closet philosophers; because the former have no high purpose to guide their actions, while the latter keep aloof from public life.

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