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Outward, thanks to the knowledge of physical laws, man could subdue (or subjugate...) nature, but inwardly, he remained a slave to it. For, when all is said and done, at what is aiming all this display (or deployment) of activity, if not to realized outward profits, to provide material pleasure (or enjoyment). It is not the first time that men sell their birth right for a dish of lentils, and thus disown (or repudiate or deny) the best of thmeselves.

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Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.

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A man polished to the nail. [Lat., Ad unguem factus home.]

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A good man regards the root; he fixes the root, and ail else flows out of it. The root is filial piety; the fruit brotherly love.

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We are not meant to find peace in this world. The spirit of life cannot exist without effort. Destroy the rivalries of man and nations and you will have destroyed all that makes for betterment and progress on Earth.

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A man's own self is the last person to believe in him, and is harder to cheat than the rest of the world.

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Help, master, help! here's a fish hangs in the net, like a poor man's right in the law; 'twill hardly come out.

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He was not an ill-disposed young man, unless to be rather cold hearted, and rather selfish, is to be ill-disposed.

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A man who is very busy seldom changes his opinions.

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With a woman, a man always wants to let himself go. And it is precisely with a woman that he should never let himself go ... but stick to his innermost belief and meet her just there.

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Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Men Quotes , Want Quotes

A man cannot free himself by any self-denying ordinances, neither by water nor potatoes, nor by violent possibilities, by refusing to swear, refusing to pay taxes, by going to jail, or by taking another man's crops or squatting on his land. By none of these ways can he free himself; no, nor by paying his debts with money; only by obedience to his own genius.

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Love a man, even in his sin, for that love is a likeness of the divine love, and is the summit of love on earth.

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It's over, and can't be helped, and that's one consolation, as they always say in Turkey, when they cut the wrong man's head off.

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There was purification in punishment. Not 'Forgive us our sins,' but 'Smite us for our iniquities' should be the prayer of a man to a most just God.

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Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of iron.

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A man who contemplates revenge keeps his wounds green.

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Old men are always young enough to learn with profit.

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And ah for a man to arise in me, That the man I am may cease to be!

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The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his teeth, and yet come out of that room a disloyal friend or a vile calumniator.

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Senator Douglas holds, we know, that a man may rightfully be wiser today than he was yesterday - that he may rightfully change when he finds himself wrong. But can we, for that reason, run ahead, and infer that he will make any particular change, of which he, himself, has given no intimation?

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