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He who receives a great many letters demanding answer, sees himself as if engaged in a hopeless struggle of one man against the rest of the world.
Anna C. Brackett
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He must pull out his own eyes, and see no creature, before he can say, he sees no God; He must be no man, and quench his reasonable soul, before he can say to himself, there is no God.
John Donne
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For what is a man, what has he got? If not himself, then he has naught. To say the things he truly feels, and not the words of one who kneels.
Paul Anka
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Simple honesty of purpose in a man goes a long way in life, if founded on a just estimate of himself and a steady obedience to the rule he knows and feels to be right.
Samuel Smiles
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A child, from the time he can think, should think about all he sees, should suffer for all who cannot live with honesty, should work so that all men can be honest, and should be honest himself.
Jose Marti
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As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.


William Blake
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The truly proud man knows neither superiors or inferiors. The first he does not admit of - the last he does not concern himself about.
William Hazlitt
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If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point.
Ezra Pound
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Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience.


Margaret Fuller
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That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise.


George Eliot
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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'


Don Marquis
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Obama sees himself as such a huge change that he can be cautious about other societal changes. But what he doesn't realize is that legalizing gay marriage is like electing a black president. Before you do it, it seems inconceivable. Once it's done, you can't remember what all the fuss was about.
Maureen Dowd
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Whenever man begins to doubt himself, he does something so stupid that he is reassured.


Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
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A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity.


Alexander Smith
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In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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A man is not complete until he has seen the baby he has made.


Sammy Davis, Jr.
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It isn't tying himself to one woman that a man dreads when he thinks of marrying; it's separating himself from all the others.
Helen Rowland
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Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.


Alexis Carrel
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A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he can't sit on it.


William Ralph Inge
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I admire our ancestors, whoever they were. I think the first self-conscious person must have shaken in his boots. Because as he becomes self-conscious, he's no longer part of nature. He sees himself against nature. He looks at the vastness of the universe and it looks hostile.
John Shelby Spong