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Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?
William Shakespeare

After, Desert, Whipping

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Mother, Sleep, Him

Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.
Mahatma Gandhi

Happiness, Daily, Thinking

Frazier is so ugly that he should donate his face to the US Bureau of Wild Life.
Muhammad Ali

Life, Ugly, Face

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
Immanuel Kant

Men, Judge, Heart

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.
John F. Kennedy

Life, Power, Human

You can tell alot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
Ronald Reagan

Character, Tell, Eating

A man's kiss is his signature.
Mae West

Kiss, Signature

I'll beat him so bad he'll need a shoehorn to put his hat on.
Muhammad Ali

To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body; it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.
Mahatma Gandhi

Life, Him, Liberty

A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Money, Principles, Careful

He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.
Benjamin Franklin

Wife, Often, Both

The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.
Confucius

Men, Fact, Ability

I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and say, 'No, I won't do it, I won't behave his way anymore. I'm lonely and I need people around me, maybe I have to change my methods of behaving,' and then you do it.
Leo Buscaglia

Change, Lonely, Control

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.
Khalil Gibran

Dreams, Men, Among

I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water.
Maya Angelou

Person, Him, Give

He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.
Confucius

Good, Words, Find

Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.
Mahatma Gandhi

Life, Religion, Remember

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.
Khalil Gibran

Death, Honor, Stranger

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Work, Peace, Best

Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.
John Lennon

Jesus, Ordinary, Thick

If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.
Benjamin Franklin

Him, Head, Purse

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
Benjamin Disraeli

Good, Greatest, Him

I hope that no American will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for me or against me solely on account of my religious affiliation. It is not relevant.
John F. Kennedy

Hope, Away, Vote

To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.
John F. Kennedy

Trust, Future, Past

If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.
Benjamin Franklin

Wishes, Half, Troubles

As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Long, Seems, Stands

When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.
Benjamin Franklin

Men, Heart, Woman

Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.
Benjamin Franklin

Rich, Portion, Rejoices

The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.
Benjamin Franklin

Work, Both, Hands

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