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They do say that when a man starts down hill everybody is ready to help him with a kick, and I suppose it is so.

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All philosophers make the common mistake of taking contemporary man as their starting point and of trying, through an analysis of him, to[21] reach a conclusion. "Man" involuntarily presents himself to them as an aeterna veritas as a passive element in every hurly-burly, as a fixed standard of things. Yet everything uttered by the philosopher on the subject of man is, in the last resort, nothing more than a piece of testimony concerning man during a very limited period of time.

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Great sins are great possessions; but levities and vanities possess us too; and men had rather part with Christ than with any possession.

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Nor sequent centuries could hit Orbit and sum of SHAKSPEARE's wit. The men who lived with him became Poets, for the air was fame.

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An ordinary man seeks freedom through enlightenment. An enlightened man expresses freedom through being ordinary.

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... men of power are seldom protected from their own infirmities by the men subordinate to them -- not even in the sad circumstances of mental exhaustion.

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ADMINISTRATION, n. An ingenious abstraction in politics, designed to receive the kicks and cuffs due to the premier or president. A man of straw, proof against bad-egging and dead-catting.

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Music is the poor man's Parnassus.

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Virtue between men is a commerce of good actions: he who has no part in this commerce must not be reckoned.

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What I do say is, that no man is good enough to govern another man, without that other's consent. I say this is the leading principle - the sheet anchor of American republicanism.

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Jesus is too colossal for the pen of phrasemongers, however artful. No man can dispose of Christianity with a bon mot

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Our people are slow to learn the wisdom of sending character instead of talent to Congress. Again and again they have sent a man of great acuteness, a fine scholar, a fine forensic orator, and some master of the brawls has crunched him up in his hands like a bit of paper.

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Watch a man at play for an hour and you can learn more about him than in talking to him for a year.

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The superior man, extensively studying all learning, and keeping himself under the restraint of the rules of propriety, may thus likewise not overstep what is right.

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Men regard it as their right to return evil for evil and, if they cannot, feel they have lost their liberty.

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What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.

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There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

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The man who renounces himself, comes to himself.

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Optimism is the content of small men in high places.

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May the Lord ordain that your son becomes a man, and never a coward!

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