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Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn; and you are too sensible a man not to learn from this failure.

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Man, like the generous vine, supported lives; the strength he gains is from the embrace he gives.

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A man must thank his defects, and stand in some terror of his talents.

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Like the crow among mankind are the Zanj [African Blacks] for they are the worst of men and the most vicious of creatures in character and temperament.

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No man's nature is able to know what is best for the social state of man; or, knowing, always able to do what is best.

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Man naturally desires, not only to be loved, but to be lovely; or to be that thing which is the natural and proper object of love.

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Everything that man esteems Endures a moment or a day.

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A man who is swayed by negative emotions may have good enough intentions, may be truthful in word, but he will never find the Truth.

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Man can become like God and acquire control over the whole universe if he multiplies infinitely his centre of self-consciousness.

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I weave the shoes of Sorrow: Soundless shall be the footfall light In all men's ears of Sorrow, Sudden and light.

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The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow it.

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A man cannot deserve adventures; he cannot earn dragons and hippogriffs.

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If the common man in the past had a grave respect for property, it may conceivably have been because he sometimes had some of his own.

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If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again.

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Man is not only a contributory creature, but a total creature; he does not only make one, but he is all; he is not a piece of the world, but the world itself, and next to the glory of God, the reason why there is a world.

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Some people throw a bit of their personality after their bad arguments, as if that might straighten their paths and turn them into right and good arguments-just as a man in a bowling alley, after he has let go of the ball, still tries to direct it with gestures.

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Of what use were wings to a man fast bound in chains of iron?

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Every man has a mob self and an individual self, in varying proportions.

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I cannot picture to myself a time when all mankind will have one religion.

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At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles. Friend, client, child, sickness, fear, want, charity, all knock at once at thy closet door and say,—'Come out unto us.' But keep thy state; come not into their confusion. The power men possess to annoy me I give them by a weak curiosity. No man can come near me but through my act.

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