A Quotes
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“A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake.”
“A man may be buoyed up by the efflation of his wild desires to brave any imaginable peril; but he cannot calmly see one he loves braving the same peril; simply because he cannot feel within turn that which prompts another. He sees the danger, and feels not the power that is to overcome it.”
“A man may be capable, as Jack Ketch's wife said of his servant, of a plain piece of work, a bare hanging; but to makea malefactordiesweetly was only belonging toher husband.”
“A man may be carried on in a constant course of mortification all his days; and yet perhaps never enjoy a good day of peace and consolation.”
Source: Overcoming Temptation and Sin
“A man may be cheerful and contented in celibacy, but I do not think he can ever be happy; it is an unnatural state, and the best feelings of his nature are never called into action.”
Source: Selections from the Letters of Robert Southey
“A man may be defeated by his own secondary successes.”
“A man may be down, but he is never out.”
Source: The Man Nobody Knows: A Discovery of the Real Jesus
“A man may be hot but he's not when he's shot cause you can't get a man with a gun.”
“A man may be humble through vainglory.”
Source: Complete Essays
“A man may be in as just possession of the truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.”
“A man may be made in one generation, but a lady never!”
“A man may be outlawed for the sake of a fish net he has never seen.”
“A man may be said to love most truly that woman in whose company he can feel drowsy in comfort.”
“A man may be sharper than another, but not than all others.”
“A man may be so bold of his predestination, that he forget his conversation.”
Source: An Exposition Upon the Second Epistle General of St. Peter
“A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.”
Source: The Life of Samuel Johnson
“A man may be the greatest philosopher in the world but a child in RELIGION. When a man has developed a high state of spirituality he can understand that the kingdom of heaven is within him.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“A man may be theologically knowing and spiritually ignorant.”
Source: The Works of the Late Rev. Stephen Charnock ... With a Prefatory Dedication and Memoir
“A man may be ungrateful, but the human race is not so.”
“A man may be variously accomplished, and yet be a feeble poet.”
Source: The Principles of Success in Literature
“A man may be very sincere in good principles, without having good practice.”
Source: Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales
“A man may beat down the bitter fruit from an evil tree until he is weary; while the root abides in strength and vigour, the beating down of the present fruit will not hinder it from bringing forth more. This is the folly of some men; they set themselves with all earnestness and diligence against the appearing eruption of lust, but, leaving the principle and root untouched, perhaps unsearched out, they make but little or no progress in this work of mortification.”
Source: The Mortification of Sin
“A man may beg, but a woman has to sell.”
Source: Les Misérables
“A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it.”
“A man may by custom fortify himself against pain, shame, and suchlike accidents; but as to death, we can experience it but once, and are all apprentices when we come to it”
Source: Michel de Montaigne: Selected Essays
“A man may call to mind the face of his friend, but not his own. Here, then, is an initial difficulty in the way of applying the maxim, Know Thyself.”
Source: Studies in Pessimism: Top of Schopenhauer
“A man may carry the whole scheme of Christian truth in his mind from boyhood to old age without the slightest effect upon his character and aims. It has had less influence than the multiplication table.”
“A man may climb Everest for himself, but at the summit he plants his country's flag.”
Source: The collected speeches of Margaret Thatcher
“A man may commit sin and yet be ignorant of it, and fancy himself innocent when he is guilty... We shall do well to remember that when we make our own miserably imperfect knowledge and consciousness the measure of our sinfulness, we are on very dangerous ground.”
Source: Holiness: It's Nature, Hindrances, Difficulties, and Roots
“A man may conquer a million men in battle but one who conquers himself is, indeed, the greatest of conquerors.”
“A man may daydream of how he would spend a million dollars, but playing the same game with a billion dollars sours the fantasy. There are too many possibilities. The house he once wished for with all his heart is suddenly too small. The travel, too cheap. He wanted to visit an island. Now he contemplates buying one.”
Source: Red Glove
“A man may debar nonsense from his library of reason, but not from the arena of his impulses.”
Source: The League of Frightened Men
“A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.”
“A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death.”
“A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963
“A man may do very well with a very little knowledge, and scarce be found out in mixed company; everybody is so much more ready to produce his own, than to call for a display of your acquisitions.”
Source: Works, with a Sketch of His Life and Final Memorials
“A man may doubt of God's existence when he is in good health, just as he may doubt whether his relation with a harlot is sinful. When he falls ill, when dropsy develops, he leaves his concubine, and he believes in God.”
“A man may easier see without eyes, speak without a tongue, than truly mortify one sin without the Spirit.”
Source: Overcoming Temptation and Sin
“A man may fail many times, and then he turns to Cosmic Ordering.”
Source: Cosmic Ordering Connection: Change your life within minutes!
“A man may find his own strength through many struggles.”
“A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm”
“A man may follow vanity as truly in the counting-house as in the theatre. If he be spending his life in amassing wealth, he passes his days in a vain show.”
Source: Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version
“A man may forgive many wrongs, but he cannot easily forgive anyone who makes it plain that his conversation is tedious.”
“A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.”
Source: Morse, John T.Life and letters of Oliver Wendell Holmes
“A man may go into the field and say his prayer and be aware of God, or he may be in Church and be aware of God; but if he is more aware of Him because he is in a quiet place, that is his own deficiency and not due to God, Who is alike present in all things and places, and is willing to give Himself everywhere so far as lies in Him... He knows God rightly who knows Him everywhere.”
Source: Meister Eckhart's Sermons
“A man may go to heaven without health, without riches, without honors, without learning, without friends; but he can never go there without Christ.”
“A man may have ‘his moment,’ and that moment endure for decades, or only for the few seconds it takes for a bullet to travel across a courtyard to the balcony upon which he stands as he exhorts his people to follow him.”
Source: Amidst Dark Satanic Mills
“A man may have intelligence enough to excel in a particular thing and lecture on it, and yet not have sense enough to know he ought to be silent on some other subject of which he has but a slight knowledge; if such an illustrious man ventures beyond the bounds of his capacity, he loses his way and talks like a fool.”
“A man may have lived all of his life in the gray, and the land and trees of him dark and somber. The events, the important ones, may have trooped by faceless and pale. And then-the glory-so that a cricket song sweetens his ears, the smell of the earth rises chanting to his nose, and dappling light under a tree blesses his eyes. Then a man pours outward, a torrent of him, and yet he is not diminished.”
Source: East of Eden
“A man may have no bad habits and have worse”
Source: Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend