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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone; but sometimes it is a great relief.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.
- Negative
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dull would be the man who should merely tolerate this plan of social industry. Weak would be the position of him who should take an apologetic tone in defending it, or present its claims in a merely negative way, by exposing the evils and perils of the socialistic plan.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
If a man were living in isolation his income would be literally his product. Make him the monarch and owner of an island, and the fruits that he raises and the clothing that he makes constitute, in themselves, his income. This ceases to be true when trading begins.
- Religion
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- Nov 07, 2020
The wise man regulates his conduct by the theories both of religion and science. But he regards these theories not as statements of ultimate fact but as art-forms.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
Who wants to shake the hand of the first man to put it to America's sweetheart.
- Intelligent
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- Nov 07, 2020
I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Commemoration of Katherine of Alexandria, Martyr, 4th century If ye keep watch over your hearts, and listen for the Voice of God and learn of Him, in one short hour ye can learn more from Him than ye could learn from Man in a thousand years.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.'
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020