- Nature
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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.
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- Exalt
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- Nov 07, 2020
To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god.
- Nov 07, 2020
Temple was a man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born.
- Fall
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- Nov 07, 2020
No bird has ever uttered note That was not in some first bird's throat; Since Eden's freshness and man's fall No rose has been original.
- Every
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- Nov 07, 2020
In every age have mighty spirits dwelt unseen with man, biding the hour that needed them.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
A habit leads a man so gently in the beginning that he does not perceive he is led - with what silken threads and down what pleasant avenues it leads him! By and by, the soft silk threads become iron chains, and the pleasant avenues Avernus!
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man may do worse than make what the world calls a not wholly happy marriage.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man should have duties outside of himself; without them, he is a mere balloon, inflated with thin egotism and drifting nowhere.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
What is newest to one in foreign countries is not always the people, but their surroundings, and those same little details of life and circumstance which make no impression on a man in his own land until he returns to it after a prolonged absence, and then they stand out very sharply for a while.
- Joy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Wait the end with joy. It is the end which characterizes everything and which tests a man's expectations.
- Punishment
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- Nov 07, 2020
The rashness of the persecutor hath overspread the rights of the persecuted so that punishment is awarded to him that has gained the victory, the inglorious triumphs, and the man who deserved bonds has carried off the prize.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020