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I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month,
and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
- Thomas Jefferson
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Advertisements contain the only truths
to be relied on in a newspaper.
- Thomas Jefferson
The man who reads nothing at all
is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
- Thomas Jefferson
Were it left to me to decide whether we should
have a government without newspapers,
or newspapers without a government,
I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.
- Thomas Jefferson
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
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
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.
Money has never made man happy, nor will it,
there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness.
The more of it one has the more one wants.
- Benjamin Franklin
Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
A man should do his job so well that the living,
the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
As long as a man stands in his own way,
everything seems to be in his way.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.
- George Savile
If there is anything that a man can do well,
I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
- Abraham Lincoln
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for,
he isn't fit to live.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If a man does his best, what else is there?
- George S. Patton
A man who as a physical being
is always turned toward the outside,
thinking that his happiness lies outside him,
finally turns inward and
discovers that the source is within him.
- Soren Kierkegaard
A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.
- Seneca
It is not the man who has too little,
but the man who craves more, that is poor.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing,
and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
- George Bernard Shaw
If a man loses his reverence for any part of life,
he will lose his reverence for all of life.
- Albert Schweitzer
A man can fail many times,
but he isn't a failure until
he begins to blame somebody else.
- John Burroughs
The gem cannot be polished without friction,
nor man perfected without trials.
- Confucius
A great man is always willing to be little.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
If a man can... make a better mousetrap,
the world will make a beaten path to his door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe,
that lures him to evil ways.
- The Buddha
Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head,
and knows not that it brings abundance
to drive away the hunger.
- Saint Basil
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready
for his opportunity when it comes.
- Benjamin Disraeli
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone
who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers.
You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
- Naguib Mahfouz
All this worldly wisdom was once
the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
- Henry David Thoreau
Every man dies. Not every man truly lives.
- the movie Braveheart
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
When I am getting ready to reason with a man,
I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself
and what I am going to say
and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
- Abraham Lincoln
The ultimate test of a man's conscience
may be his willingness to sacrifice something today
for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard.
- Gaylord Nelson
A wise man will make haste to forgive,
because he knows the true value of time,
and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
- Samuel Johnson
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
- John F. Kennedy
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
- Oscar Wilde
No man is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus
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
You cannot build character and courage by
taking away a man's initiative and independence.
- Abraham Lincoln
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance;
the wise grows it under his feet.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live
that his happiness shall depend
as little as possible on external things.
- Epictetus
The Universe is one great kindergarten for man.
Everything that exists has brought
with it its own peculiar lesson.
- Orison Swett Marden
If a man empties his purse into his head,
no man can take it away from him.
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
- Benjamin Franklin
One man with courage makes a majority.
- old saying probably repeated by Andrew Jackson
(falsely attributed to Jefferson)
Non-violence means avoiding not only external physical violence
but also internal violence of spirit.
You not only refuse to shoot a man,
but you refuse to hate him.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question
than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
- Bruce Lee
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
- Abraham Lincoln
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
There are other measures of self-respect for a man,
than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If thou wilt make a man happy,
add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
- Epicurus
There is nothing with which every man is so afraid
as getting to know how enormously much
he is capable of doing and becoming.
- Soren Kierkegaard
A man is what he thinks about all day long.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mystery creates wonder, and wonder is the basis
of man's desire to understand.
- Neil Armstrong
The value of a man should be seen in what he gives
and not in what he is able to receive.
- Albert Einstein
How could man rejoice in victory
and delight in the slaughter of men?
- Lao Tzu
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands
in moments of comfort and convenience,
but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Any man who reads too much
and uses his own brain too little
falls into lazy habits of thinking.
- Albert Einstein
Take a chance! All life is a chance.
The man who goes farthest is generally
the one who is willing to do and dare.
- Dale Carnegie
A man can succeed at almost anything
for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
- Charles M. Schwab
The man who goes alone can start today;
but he who travels with another
must wait till that other is ready.
- Henry David Thoreau
That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.
- Henry David Thoreau
Intent is what can make a man succeed
when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated.
- Carlos Castaneda
Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill
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