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No picture of life can have any veracity that does not admit the odious facts. A man's power is hooped in by a necessity, which, by many experiments, he touches on every side, until he learns its arc.

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I find my breath gets short, but it seldom gets longer as a man gets older. I take it as it comes, and make the most of it. That's the best way, ain't it?

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The human race will then become one family, and the world will be the dwelling of Rational Men.

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How great is the path proper to the Sage! Like overflowing water, it sends forth and nourishes all things, and rises up to the height of heaven. All-complete is its greatness! It embraces the three hundred rules of ceremony, and the three thousand rules of demeanor. It waits for the proper man, and then it is trodden. Hence it is said, 'Only by perfect virtue can the perfect path, in all its courses, be made a fact.'

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Man makes the mistake of separating himself from God and identifying himself with the body.

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The worst lesson that can be taught to a man is to rely upon others and to whine over his sufferings

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The secret of fortune is joy in our hands. Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man. For him all doors are flung wide. Him all tongues greet, all honors crown, all eyes follow with desire. Our love goes out to him and embraces him because he did not need it.

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I consider it a mark of great prudence in a man to abstain from threats or any contemptuous expressions, for neither of these weaken the enemy, but threats make him more cautious, and the other excites his hatred, and a desire to revenge himself.

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It's not a man's working hours that are important--it's his leisure hours. That's the mistake we all make.

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Is it not strange, that sheep's guts should hale souls out of men's bodies!

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I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.

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What Time hath scanted men in hair, he hath given them in wit.

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The roaring of lions, the howling of wolves, the raging of the stormy sea, and the destructive sword, are portions of eternity, too great for the eye of man.

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You cant reach old age by another man's road, my habits protect my life but they would assassinate you

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What a writer has to do is write what hasn't been written before or beat dead men at what they have done.

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Man is a degeneration of what he was.

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One is more certain to influence men, to produce more effect on them, by absurdities than by sensible ideas.

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The intellectual man requires a fine bait; the sots are easily amused. But everybody is drugged with his own frenzy, and the pageant marches at all hours, with music and banner and badge.

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A man may conquer a million men in battle but one who conquers himself is, indeed, the greatest of conquerors.

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If I cannot retain my moral influence over a man except by occasionally knocking him down, if that is the only basis upon which he will respect me, then for the sake of his soul I have got occasionally to knock him down.

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