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A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know.
Laurence J. Peter

I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.
Mahatma Gandhi

God, Woman, Become

The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.
William Shakespeare

Music, Sweet, Himself

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friends, Growth, Seen

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.
Benjamin Franklin

Happy, May, Two

Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.
Mahalia Jackson

Faith, Health, Live

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 should never neglect his family for business.
Walt Disney

Family, Business, Neglect

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What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.
Robert Green Ingersoll

Love, Heart, Eyes

Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles, and they are the very experiences he needs to encourage and complete the cleansing process.
Sai Baba

Experience, Spiritual, Different

A great man is always willing to be little.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.
William Shakespeare

Give, Few, Voice

Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.
Bruce Lee

Important, Living, Individual

A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.
Charlie Chaplin

Character, True, Drunk

There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus.
Blaise Pascal

God, Heart, Through

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.
Malcolm X

Freedom, Equality, Justice

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
Helen Keller

Happiness, Wise, Mean

I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one.
William Shakespeare

Sad, Play, Hold

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
Benjamin Franklin

Small, Makes, Himself

A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.
Herb Caen

Time, Wisdom, Off

Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?
Mahatma Gandhi

Life, Freedom, Living

Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.
William Shakespeare

Life, Honor, Far

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
Oscar Wilde

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Cannot, Trials, Nor

Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
Oscar Wilde

Woman, Begins, Ends

While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man.
Maya Angelou

Technology, Humanity, While

When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.
Oscar Wilde

Love, Woman, Her

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
George Bernard Shaw

History, Experience, Learning

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

I would never disrespect any man, woman, chick or child out there. We're all the same. What goes around comes around, and karma kicks us all in the butt in the end of the day.
Angie Stone

Karma, End, Woman

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