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Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.
Mark Twain

Loved, Himself, Envied

Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.
Napoleon Hill

Life, Success, Men

It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.
Thomas Jefferson

Change, May, Liberty

Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
William Shakespeare

Life, Dull, Tedious

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
Edgar Allan Poe

Faith, Happy, Wise

A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
C. S. Lewis

Cannot, Young, Reading

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.
Thomas Jefferson

History, Government, Him

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
Mahatma Gandhi

Anger, Sleep, Forget

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A man of courage is also full of faith.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Faith, Courage, Full

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.
Winston Churchill

Time, Truth, Himself

Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
Mahatma Gandhi

Nature, Woman, Service

For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.
Maya Angelou

Truth, Place, Fact

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Love, Time, God

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
Oscar Wilde

Women, Become, Mothers

I like a man who grins when he fights.
Winston Churchill

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
Oscar Wilde

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Good, Forward, Two

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.
William Shakespeare

Age, Cannot, Youth

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
Winston Churchill

Good, Read, Books

Great and good are seldom the same man.
Winston Churchill

Good, Great, Same

Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
Mahatma Gandhi

Great, Works, Welfare

Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.
Mahatma Gandhi

Greatest, Force, Mankind

There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.
Oscar Wilde

Woman, Nothing, Married

A woman has to be intelligent, have charm, a sense of humor, and be kind. It's the same qualities I require from a man.
Catherine Deneuve

Humor, Woman, Same

Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead.
Lucille Ball

Life, Love, Once

Me, I'm dishonest, and you can always trust a dishonest man to be dishonest. Honestly, it's the honest ones you have to watch out for.
Johnny Depp

Trust, Honest, Watch

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.
Winston Churchill

Power, Himself, Except

When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
Winston Churchill

Nothing, Polite, Costs

There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.
Mahatma Gandhi

No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.
Thomas Jefferson

Him, Reputation, Carry

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