A Quotes
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“A man of letters is often a man with two natures,--one a book nature, the other a human nature. These often clash sadly.”
Source: Literature and Life
“A man of letters, merely by reading a phrase, can estimate exactly the literary merit of its author.”
Source: Swann's Way
“A man of limited desire will always have less or perhaps nothing to worry and sensibly no fear of losing anything or everything in life.”
“A man of logic is a man of sin.”
“A man of many seasons and many rainbows - there are so many dimensions of celebration.”
“A man of maxims only is like a Cyclops with one eye, and that in the back of his head.”
Source: The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions
“A man of meditation functions differently. Whatever profession he chooses, it does not matter. He will bring to his profession some quality of sacredness. He may be making shoes, or he may be cleaning the roads, but he will bring to his work some quality, some grace, some beauty, which is not possible without samādhi.”
“A man of moderate Understanding, thinks he writes divinely: A man of good Understanding, thinks he writes reasonably.”
“A man of my acquaintance once wrote a poem called "The Road Less Traveled", describing a journey he took through the woods along a path most travelers never used. The poet found that the road less traveled was peaceful but quite lonely, and he was probably a bit nervous as he went along, because if anything happened on the road less traveled, the other travelers would be on the road more frequently traveled and so couldn't hear him as he cried for help. Sure enough, that poet is dead.”
“A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.”
“A man of no conversation should smoke.”
Source: The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson
“A man of noble and enlightened character separates separates body from spirit.”
Source: Why I am a Stoic
“A man of one trade is useful to his community; a man of many trades is useful to society.”
“A man of ordinary talent will always be ordinary, whether he travels or not; but a man of superior talent (which I cannot deny myself to be without being impious) will go to pieces if he remains forever in the same place.”
“A man of over thirty might be held to be at the height of his powers, but not necessarily of his wisdom.”
“A man of peace does more good than a very learned man.”
“A man of personality can formulate ideals, but only a man of character can achieve them.”
Source: English Prose Style
“A man of pleasure is a man of pains.”
Source: The Complaint Or, Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality, to which are Added a Glossary, a Paraphrase on Part of the Book of Job, and a Poem on the Last Day
“A man of power and might. His eyes see beyond the veils of man, and he knows how to discern light, because he is guided by realms beyond sight.”
Source: A Man of Valour: Idioms and Epigrams
“A man of prayer regards what are known as physical calamities as divine chastisement.”
Source: Collected Works
“A man of purpose focuses on his destination, not his situation. Don't let your situation mislead you!”
“A man of quality is never threatened by a woman of equality.”
Source: Out of the Storm and into God’s Arms: Shelter in Turbulent Times
“A man of refined taste and judgment.”
“A man of remarkable genius may afford to pass by a piece of wit, if it happen to border on abuse. A little genius is obliged to catch at every witticism indiscriminately.”
Source: Essays on Men and Manners
“A man of science doesn't discover in order to know, he wants to know in order to discover.”
“A man of science rises ever, in seeking truth; and if he never finds it in its wholeness, he discovers nevertheless very significant fragments; and these fragments of universal truth are precisely what constitutes science.”
Source: Experimental Medicine
“A man of sense and education should meet a suitable companion in a wife. It is a miserable thing when the conversation can only be such as whether the mutton should be boiled or roasted, and probably a dispute about that.”
Source: The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
“A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.”
“A man of sense may be in haste, but can never be in a hurry.”
Source: The Modern Chesterfield
“A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters.”
Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters
“A man of sense soon discovers, because he carefully observes, where and how long he is welcome; and takes care to leave the company at least as soon as he is wished out of it. Fools never perceive whether they are ill timed or ill placed.”
Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters
“A man of sense, though born without wit, often lives to have wit. His memory treasures up ideas and reflections; he compares themwith new occurrences, and strikes out new lights from the collision. The consequence is sometimes bons mots, and sometimes apothegms.”
“A man of Seville is shaved by the Barber of Seville if and only if the man does not shave himself. Does the barber shave himself?”
“A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating.”
“A man of spirit must not think of the word difficulty as so much as existing. Away with it!”
“A man of strength and wisdom, John Paul became an inspiration to generations of both Catholics and non-Catholics throughout the world by encouraging freedom, promoting peace and respecting all faiths.”
“A man of substance should trust very carefully an online networking friend whose shared images are not often palatable to his taste.”
“A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar.”
Source: A friend from England
“A man of suffering is familiar with pain.”
“A man of supreme folly: his life flies away while he is merely hoping to enjoy it.”
“A man of talent is not born to be left to himself, but to devote himself to art and good masters who will make something of him.”
Source: Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann
“A man of talent will strive for money and reputation; but the spring that moves genius to the production of its works is not as easy to name”
Source: The Art of Literature
“A man of the best parts and greatest learning, if he does not know the world by his own experience and observation, will be very absurd, and consequently very unwelcome in company. He may say very good things; but they will be probably so ill-timed, misplaced, or improperly addressed, that he had much better hold his tongue.”
“A man of the Night's Watch lives his life for the realm. Not for a king, nor a lord, nor the honor of this house or that house, neither for gold nor glory nor a woman's love, but for the realm, and all the people in it. A man of the Night's Watch takes no wife and fathers no sons. Our wife is duty. Our mistress is honor. And you are the only sons we shall ever know.”
Source: A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows
“A man of the right doesn't write in the same way as a man of the left, you can see that right away, or a woman of the right or a woman of the left.”
“A man of the utmost insignificance.”
“A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thought.”
“A man of the world understands the world, but a man of God understands life. For in their purest of forms, the one comes through perhaps that application of human knowledge, but the other comes through that of a proper and divine wisdom.”
“A man of true honor protects the unwritten word which binds his conscience more scrupulously, if possible, than he does the bond a breach of which subjects him to legal liabilities, and the United States, in aiming to maintain itself as one of the most enlightened nations, would do its citizens gross injustice if it applied to its international relations any other than a high standard of honor and morality.”
“A man of true science... thinks, that by mouthing hard words, he proves that he understands hard things.”