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Man, as the minister and interpreter of nature, is limited in act and understanding by his observation of the order of nature; neither his understanding nor his power extends further.

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I lay it down as a general rule, Harriet, that if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him.

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Nature's way is simple and easy, but men prefer the intricate and artificial.

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He had the unlucky capacity many men have of seeing and believing in the possibility of goodness and truth, but of seeing the evil and falsehood of life too clearly to take any serious part in it.

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It is a sin against God not to pray for the Israel of God, especially for those of them that are under our charge. Good men are afraid of the guilt of omissions ( I Samuel 12).

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Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in the lethargy of boredom.

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A great deal of contemporary criticism reads to me like a man saying, 'Of course I do not like green cheese. I am very fond of brown sherry.

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The coward calls the brave man rash, the rash man calls him a coward.

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Every man is entitled to be valued by his best moment.

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Men did not love Rome because she was great. She was great because they had loved her.

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A man who has nothing to do with his own time has no conscience in his intrusion on that of others.

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Men generally decide upon a middle course, which is most hazardous, for they know neither how to be entirely good nor entirely bad.

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Man learns more readily and remembers more willingly what excites his ridicule than what deserves esteem and respect.

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The function of Nayee-Talim is not to teach an occupation, but through it to develop the whole man.

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All men desire to free themselves solely from death; they do not know how to free themselves from life.

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Nobody is so constituted as to be able to live everywhere and anywhere; and he who has great duties to perform, which lay claim toall his strength, has, in this respect, a very limited choice. The influence of climate upon the bodily functionsextends so far, that a blunder in the choice of locality and climate is able not only to alienate a man from his actual duty, but also to withhold it from him altogether, so that he never even comes face to face with it.

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I have never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from other men. There is not much harm in a lion. He has no ideals, no religion, no politics, no chivalry, no gentility; in short, no reason for destroying anything that he does not want to eat

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Your destiny is that of a man, your vows those of a god.

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Oh, nature's noblest gift, my grey goose quill, Slave of my thoughts, obedient to my will, Torn from the parent bird to form a pen, That mighty instrument of little men.

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When I hear a man discoursing of virtue, or of any sort of wisdom, who is a true man and worthy of his theme, I am delighted beyond measure: and I compare the man and his words, and note the harmony and correspondence of them. And such an one I deem to be the true musician, having in himself a fairer harmony than that of the lyre.

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