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I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
Abraham Lincoln

Concerned, Grandson

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
Mark Twain

Cannot, Approval

What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.
Mark Twain

Life, Real, Person

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
Maya Angelou

Good, Deep, Book

Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
Benjamin Franklin

Wise, Powerful, Rich

The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.
Abraham Lincoln

Time, Best, Him

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.
C. S. Lewis

Sleep, Wife, Humility

Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.
Muhammad Ali

Power, Win, Down

A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.
Confucius

Speech, Actions, Superior

Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.
Bob Marley

Destiny, Decide, Gotta

A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.
Mark Twain

Time, Cannot, Away

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, 'I love you.'
Billy Graham

Love, God, Saying

Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.
Mahatma Gandhi

Peace, Real, Find

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.
Mark Twain

Respect, Heart, Himself

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.
Robert Frost

Life, Person, Sometimes

Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.
Winston Churchill

Others, Everyone, Last

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Sad, Often, Secret

A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.
Chanakya

Good, Alone, Karma

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Love, Knowledge, Hate

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.
Confucius

Good, Thoughts, Large

It is a wise father that knows his own child.
William Shakespeare

Wise, Father, Child

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!
Charles Dickens

Christmas, Home, Happy

A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.
Oscar Wilde

Work, Woman, Her

There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.
Sam Walton

Money, Fire, Down

I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
Thomas Paine

Love, Strength, Business

It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.
Mark Twain

Call, Dumb, Animal

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.
Thomas Jefferson

Eye, Begins, Whenever

Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.
Swami Vivekananda

Time, Truth, Live

An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.
Oscar Wilde

Him, Friends, Excellent

Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.
Mark Twain

Book, Order, Discover

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