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No, when the fight begins within himself, A man's worth something.


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The truly proud man knows neither superiors or inferiors. The first he does not admit of - the last he does not concern himself about.
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Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.


Thomas Jefferson
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When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.
Samuel Butler
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It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.
Thomas Paine
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No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires more, he proclaims his wants and his beggarly condition.
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Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort.
Jean Cocteau
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No man made great by death offers more hope to lowly pride than does Abraham Lincoln; for while living he was himself so simple as often to be dubbed a fool.
Thomas Vernor Smith
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No doubt, man will continue to weigh and to measure, watch himself grow, and his Universe around him and with him, according to the ever growing powers of his tools.
Albert Claude
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A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.


John Burroughs
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When a man keeps beating me to the draw mentally, he begins to get glamorous.


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I think the illest thing about Wiz Khalifa is how true to himself he's always been, and I miss that from artists. Nothing about what he does ever felt like he was reaching to be something that he wasn't.
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The real artist has no idea that he is sacrificing himself for art. He does what he does for one reason and one reason only-he can't help doing it.
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When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing - deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different.
John Galsworthy
A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.
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A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity.


Alexander Smith
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The first responsibility of the Muslim is as teacher. That is his job, to teach. His first school, his first classroom is within the household. His first student is himself. He masters himself and then he begins to convey the knowledge that he has acquired to the family. The people who are closest to him.
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A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.
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There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.


Will Rogers
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