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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

If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.
Mark Twain

Improve, Cat, Crossed

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
Elbert Hubbard

Wisdom, Fool, Five

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

God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man.
Arthur Young

God, Thinks, Plants

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

Love, Knowledge, Hate

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
Robert Frost

Age, Birthday, Woman

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

Good, Thoughts, Large

By trying we can easily endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.
Mark Twain

Mean, Trying, Adversity

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

I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.
Stanley Baldwin

Trust, Woman, Reason

Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.
Mark Twain

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Hope, Reality, Worst

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A man is great by deeds, not by birth.
Chanakya

Great, Deeds, Birth

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

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
Mark Twain

Good, Cannot, Read

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

Eye, Begins, Whenever

Man - a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
Mark Twain

Work, God, Tired

Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.
Ernest Hemingway

Life, Same, Another

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.
Mark Twain

Before, After, Knows

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

Him, Friends, Excellent

The man who has no imagination has no wings.
Muhammad Ali

A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
Thomas Jefferson

Coward, Spirit, Quarrels

When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.
Thomas Jefferson

Trust, Public, Himself

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.
Mark Twain

Cannot, Himself, Written

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.
Theodore Roosevelt

Good, Country, Enough

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.
Confucius

Superior, Sell, Inferior

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
Thomas Jefferson

Nothing, Educated, Newspapers

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