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To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas
he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
- Thomas Jefferson
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We return thanks to our mother,
the earth, which sustains us.
We return thanks to the rivers and streams
which supply us with water.
We return thanks to all herbs, which furnish medicines
for the cure of our diseases.
We return thanks to the corn, and to her sisters,
the beans and squashes, which give us life.
We return thanks to the bushes and trees,
which provide us with fruit.
We return thanks to the wind,
which, moving the air, has banished diseases.
We return thanks to the moon and the stars,
which have given us their light when the sun was gone.
We return thanks to our grandfather He-no,
that he has protected his grandchildren from witches and reptiles,
and has given us his rain.
We return thanks to the sun,
that he has looked upon the earth with a beneficent eye.
Lastly, we return thanks to the Great Spirit,
in whom is embodied all goodness,
and who directs all things for the good of his children.
- Iroquois traditional
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you are offended at any man's fault,
turn to yourself and study your own failings.
Then you will forget your anger.
- Epictetus
All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy.
What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
- Carl Jung
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers.
You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
- Naguib Mahfouz
We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks-
if we agree with him.
- Mark Twain
You cannot build character and courage by
taking away a man's initiative and independence.
- Abraham Lincoln
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question
than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
- Bruce Lee
We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me,
that man with all his noble qualities...
still bears in his bodily frame
the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.
- Charles Darwin
All this worldly wisdom was once
the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
- Henry David Thoreau
The wise man looks back into the past,
and does not grieve over what is far off,
nor rejoice over what is near;
for he knows that time is without end.
- Lao Tzu
There is nothing with which every man is so afraid
as getting to know how enormously much
he is capable of doing and becoming.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The man who goes alone can start today;
but he who travels with another
must wait till that other is ready.
- Henry David Thoreau
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right.
Men will believe what they see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Science gives man knowledge, which is power;
religion gives man wisdom, which is control.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb
Many a man fails as an original thinker
simply because his memory is too good.
- Nietzsche
You cannot teach a man anything;
you can only help him find it within himself.
- Galileo Galilei
The wise man looks into space,
and does not regard the small as too little,
nor the great as too much;
for he knows that there is no limit to dimensions.
- Lao Tzu
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head,
and knows not that it brings abundance
to drive away the hunger.
- Saint Basil
Any man who reads too much
and uses his own brain too little
falls into lazy habits of thinking.
- Albert Einstein
The Universe is one great kindergarten for man.
Everything that exists has brought
with it its own peculiar lesson.
- Orison Swett Marden
A great man is always willing to be little.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is not the man who has too little,
but the man who craves more, that is poor.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Before you criticize a man,
walk a mile in his shoes.
- Anonymous
A man should look for what is,
and not for what he thinks should be.
- Albert Einstein
Money has never made man happy, nor will it,
there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness.
The more of it one has the more one wants.
- Benjamin Franklin
Mystery creates wonder, and wonder is the basis
of man's desire to understand.
- Neil Armstrong
The more a man can forget, the greater the number
of metamorphoses which his life can undergo,
the more he can remember, the more divine his life becomes.
- Soren Kierkegaard
A wise man hears one word and understands two.
- Yiddish Proverb
A man is but the product of his thoughts -
what he thinks, he becomes.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
- Oscar Wilde
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance;
the wise grows it under his feet.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus
That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.
- Henry David Thoreau
Is the babe young? When I behold it,
it seems more venerable than the oldest man.
- Henry David Thoreau
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
If a man empties his purse into his head,
no man can take it away from him.
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
- Benjamin Franklin
A man who as a physical being
is always turned toward the outside,
thinking that his happiness lies outside him,
finally turns inward and
discovers that the source is within him.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
A wise man will make haste to forgive,
because he knows the true value of time,
and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
- Samuel Johnson
When I am getting ready to reason with a man,
I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself
and what I am going to say
and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
- Abraham Lincoln
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
The gem cannot be polished without friction,
nor man perfected without trials.
- Confucius
Man becomes great exactly in the degree
in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day,
teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.
- Chinese Proverb
A man is what he thinks about all day long.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
- Abraham Lincoln
As soon as man does not take his existence for granted,
but beholds it as something
unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.
- Albert Schweitzer
A man in debt is so far a slave.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live
that his happiness shall depend
as little as possible on external things.
- Epictetus
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
- John F. Kennedy
Early to bed and early to rise,
makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
- Benjamin Franklin
There is no limit to what a man can do
or where he can go,
if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.
- Robert Woodruff
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man can do only what he can do.
But if he does that each day he can sleep at night
and do it again the next day.
- Albert Schweitzer
There are other measures of self-respect for a man,
than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If a man loses his reverence for any part of life,
he will lose his reverence for all of life.
- Albert Schweitzer
If there is anything that a man can do well,
I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
- Abraham Lincoln
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands
in moments of comfort and convenience,
but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe,
that lures him to evil ways.
- The Buddha
Take a chance! All life is a chance.
The man who goes farthest is generally
the one who is willing to do and dare.
- Dale Carnegie
The full measure of a man is
not to be found in the man himself,
but in the colors and textures that
come alive in others because of him.
- Albert Schweitzer
The wise man in the storm prays God,
not for safety from danger,
but for deliverance from fear.
It is the storm within which endangers him,
not the storm without.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The eyes of the cheerful and of the melancholy man
are fixed upon the same creation;
but very different are the aspects which it bears to them.
- Albert Pike
One man with courage makes a majority.
- old saying probably repeated by Andrew Jackson
(falsely attributed to Jefferson)
The timid man yearns for full value and demands a tenth.
The bold man strikes for double value and compromises on par.
- Mark Twain
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