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A man cannot speak to his son, but as a father;
to his wife, but as a husband;
to his enemy, but upon terms:
whereas a friend may speak, as the case requires,
and not as it sorteth with the person.
- Francis Bacon
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Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
- Francis Bacon
We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
- Francis Bacon
Those that want friends to open themselves unto
are cannibals of their own hearts.
- Francis Bacon
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Little do men perceive what solitude is,
and how far it extendeth.
For a crowd is not company,
and faces are but a gallery of pictures,
and talk but a tinkling cymbal,
where there is no love.
- Francis Bacon
This communicating of a man's self to his friend
works two contrary effects;
for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.
- Francis Bacon
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)
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
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)
As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
- The Bible
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men
who walked through the huts comforting others,
giving away their last piece of bread...
They offer sufficient proof that everything
can be taken from a man but one thing:
to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,
to choose one's own way.
- Viktor E. Frankl
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
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.
Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill
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
As long as a man stands in his own way,
everything seems to be in his way.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
Feel Unity with Spirit and All Creation
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 [actually written by screenwriter Ted Perry in 1972]
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
If thou wilt make a man happy,
add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
- Epicurus
To measure the man, measure his heart.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
No man is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus
Well, I don't know what will happen now.
We've got some difficult days ahead.
But it doesn't matter with me now.
Because I've been to the mountaintop.
And I don't mind. Like any man,
I would like to live a long life.
Longevity has its place.
But I'm not concerned about that now.
I just want to do God's will.
And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain.
And I've looked over.
And I've seen the promised land.
I may not get there with you.
But I want you to know tonight, that we,
as a people, will get to the promised land.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
- Muhammad Ali
Circumstances make man, not man circumstances.
- Mark Twain
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
An honest man is always a child.
- Socrates
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.
Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
- Lao Tzu
Man must evolve for all human conflict,
a method which rejects
revenge, aggression and retaliation.
The foundation of such a method is love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
When I look back on all these worries,
I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed
that he had had a lot of trouble in his life,
most of which had never happened.
- Winston Churchill
A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.
- George Savile
I would rather try to persuade a man to go along,
because once I have persuaded him, he will stick.
If I scare him, he will stay just as long
as he is scared, and then he is gone.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought,
happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
- The Buddha
A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.
- Seneca
A man in debt is so far a slave.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
- Albert Schweitzer
Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
Mystery creates wonder, and wonder is the basis
of man's desire to understand.
- Neil Armstrong
All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.
- Meister Eckhart
A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams.
- Yiddish Proverb
It is what a man thinks of himself
that really determines his fate.
- Henry David Thoreau
Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
No man is a failure who enjoys life.
- William Feather
If a man does his best, what else is there?
- George S. Patton
A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
- Anonymous
It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe,
that lures him to evil ways.
- The Buddha
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
How could man rejoice in victory
and delight in the slaughter of men?
- Lao Tzu
Try not to become a man of success,
but rather try to become a man of value.
- Albert Einstein
Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth,
and if a man does not know what a thing is,
it is at least an increase in knowledge
if he knows what it is not.
- Carl Jung
The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
- B. C. Forbes
Each man is the architect of his own fate.
- Appius Claudius
A man's good name is his best monument
- from an old churchyard at Lockerbie, Scotland
I wept because I had no shoes
until I met a man who had no feet.
- old Persian Proverb
A man who dares to waste one hour of time
has not discovered the value of life.
- Charles Darwin
Non-violence is a powerful and just weapon which cuts without wounding
and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Many a man fails as an original thinker
simply because his memory is too good.
- Nietzsche
Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be,
at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him,
that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men,
and when he devotes himself helpfully
to all life that is in need of help.
- Albert Schweitzer
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man,
but he is brave five minutes longer.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
No man is the whole of himself;
his friends are the rest of him.
- Harry Emerson Fosdick
Of course I am afraid. What sane man is not?
- Luciano Pavarotti
A man can do only what he can do.
But if he does that each day he can sleep at night
and do it again the next day.
- Albert Schweitzer
Nothing can stop the man with the right
mental attitude from achieving his goal;
nothing on earth can help the man
with the wrong mental attitude.
- Thomas Jefferson
Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal
of plain living and high thinking
the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants.
Man's happiness really lies in contentment.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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