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Man Quotes
Short lines on character, patience and what it means to be a man.
This is a smaller, general collection of quotes touching on manhood, character and patience. One well-known line uses golf as an example, a test of temperament disguised as a leisure game, to make a wider point about what reveals a man's spirit. For steadier, values-driven lines, see our Good quotes.
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- Financial
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- Nov 07, 2020
I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was living in Woodstock for a long time, and I thought, I got to get out of here, man.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.
- Succeed
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- Nov 07, 2020
An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man is never perfect nor contented.
- Nov 07, 2020
It must be that a man who shuts himself up between four walls must lose the faculty of associating ideas and words.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man's constitution is so peculiar that his health is purely a negative matter. No sooner is the rage of hunger appeased than it becomes difficult to comprehend the meaning of starvation. It is only when you suffer that you really understand.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
As long as a man's heart beats, as long as a man's flesh quivers, I do not allow that a being gifted with thought and will can allow himself to despair.
- Planets
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- Nov 07, 2020
If Providence has created the stars and the planets, man has called the cannonball into existence.
- Moon
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- Nov 07, 2020
Numerous observations made upon fevers, somnambulisms, and other human maladies, seem to prove that the moon does exercise some mysterious influence upon man.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
The wisest man may be a blind father.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you bring a man two millions of money, you need have but little fear that you will not be well received.
- Poor
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- Nov 07, 2020
Imagine a society in which there were neither rich nor poor. What evils, afflictions, sorrows, disorders, catastrophes, disasters, tribulations, misfortunes, agonies, calamities, despair, desolation and ruin would be unknown to man!
- Broken
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- Nov 07, 2020