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Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds. Each man seeks those of different quality from his own, and such as are good of their kind; that is, he seeks other men, and the rest.

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The great majority of men grow up and grow old in seeming and following.

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The weathercocks on spires and housetops were mysterious with hints of stormy wind, and pointed, like so many ghostly fingers, out to dangerous seas, where fragments of great wrecks were drifting, perhaps, and helpless men were rocked upon them into a sleep as deep as the unfathomable waters.

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The applause and the favour of our fellow-men Fan even a spark of genius to a flame.

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It is a sin against God not to pray for the Israel of God, especially for those of them that are under our charge. Good men are afraid of the guilt of omissions ( I Samuel 12).

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I do not see why man should not be as cruel as nature

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A detective story generally describes six living men discussing how it is that a man is dead. A modern philosophic story generally describes six dead men discussing how any man can possibly be alive.

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I will never forget who this victory truly belongs to. It belongs to you. It belongs to you. I was never the likeliest candidate for this office. We didn't start with much money or many endorsements. Our campaign was not hatched in the halls of Washington. It began in the backyards of Des Moines and the living rooms of Concord and the front porches of Charleston. It was built by working men and women who dug into what little savings they had to give $5 and $10 and $20 to the cause.

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It is only men who are free, who create the inventions and intellectual works which to us moderns make life worth while.

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Man has always desired power. Ownership of property gives this power. Man hankers also after posthumous fame based on power.

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Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can.

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Man was formed for society.

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The Master said, “The gentleman understands what is right, whereas the petty man understands profit.” (Analects 4.16)

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All men of genius, and all those who have gained rank in the republic of letters, are brothers, whatever may be the land of their nativity.

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When large numbers of wholly innocent men are in jail, we may take it that Swaraj is at hand.

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...and knowledge is one of the finest attributes of man - though often it is most loudly voiced by those who strive for it the least.

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As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.

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Vices of the time; vices of the man.

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A man must be prepared not only to be a martyr, but to be a fool. It is absurd to say that a man is ready to toil and die for his convictions if he is not even ready to wear a wreathe around his head for them.

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Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.

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