A Quotes
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“A man that fights for his time knows the value that could be created in an hour of a day”
Source: No One Is Better Than You
“A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.”
Source: Unfinished Tales of Numenor and Middle-earth
“A man that has a taste of music, painting, or architecture, is like one that has another sense, when compared with such as have no relish of those arts”
Source: The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: The Tatler and Spectator [no. 1-160
“A man that has never lied to a woman has no respect for her feelings.”
“A man that has not dealt with his foundation cannot deal with another man's foundation.”
“A man that hath no virtue in himself, ever envieth virtue in others. For men's minds, will either feed upon their own good, or upon others' evil; and who wanteth the one, will prey upon the other; and whoso is out of hope, to attain to another's virtue, will seek to come at even hand, by depressing another's fortune.”
Source: Francisci Baconi Baronis de Verulamio ... Opera Omnia Quatuor Voluminibus Comprehensa: Containing, I. His Natural history. II. Physiological and medical remains. III. The new Atlantis. IV. His Apothegms. V. Essays. VI. Colours of good and evil. VII. History of the reign of Henry VII. VIII. History of Henry VIII. IX. Beginning of the history of Great Britain. X. Of a war with Spain. XI. Of an holy war. XII. The history of the office of alienations. XIII. Advice to the Duke of Buckingham, Sir Geor
“A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles.”
“A man that is a friend to everyone is an enemy to himself.”
“A man that is an heretic, after the first and second admonition, reject; knowing that he that is such is subverted, and sinneth, being condemned of himself.”
“A man that is ashamed of passions that are natural and reasonable is generally proud of those that are shameful and silly.”
Source: The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes
“A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea.”
“A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea. If he tries to climb out into the air as inexperienced people endeavor to do, he drowns.”
“A man that is down doesn't fear to fall.”
“A man that is endued with the powers of reason, by which he is capable of knowing, serving, glorifying, and enjoying his Maker, and yet lives without God in the world, is certainly the most despicable and the most miserable animal under the sun.”
Source: Exposition of the Old and New Testament
“A man that is not afraid of a Lion is afraid of a Cat .”
Source: John Donne's Devotions
“A man that is of Copernicus’ Opinion, that this Earth of ours is a Planet, carry’d round and enlightn’d by the Sun, like the rest of them, cannot but sometimes have a fancy … that the rest of the Planets have their Dress and Furniture, nay and their Inhabitants too as well as this Earth of ours.… But we were always apt to conclude, that ’twas in vain to enquire after what Nature had been pleased to do there, seeing there was no likelihood of ever coming to an end of the Enquiry … but a while ago, thinking somewhat seriously on this matter (not that I count my self quicker sighted than those great Men [of the past], but that I had the happiness to live after most of them) me thoughts the Enquiry was not so impracticable nor the way so stopt up with Difficulties, but that there was very good room left for probable Conjectures.”
“A man that is well ordered in his soul needeth little the unkind demeanor of worldly people nor yet their proud behavior.”
“A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time.”
Source: The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, Lord High Chancellor of England ...: With Several Additional Pieces, Never Before Printed in Any Edition of His Works. To which is Prefixed, a New Life of the Author
“A man that knows your worth doesn't need to be told how to treat you. That's a given! You won't have to question his feelings, his motives, nor his intentions. How will I know? You ask. See, he will freely show you how he feels and prove it consistently. If you're settling for anything less than what you deserve. Then, maybe you don't even know your worth.”
Source: Sweet Destiny
“A man that lives on pork, fine-flour bread, rich pies and cakes, and condiments, drinks tea and coffee, and uses tobacco, might as well try to fly as to be chaste in thought.”
Source: Plain Facts for Old and Young
“A man that loves to be peevish and paramount, and to play the sovereign at every turn, does but blast the blessings of life, and swagger away his own enjoyments; and not to enlarge upon not folly, not to mention the injustice of such a behavior, it is always the sign of a little, unbenevolent temper. It is disease and discredit all over, and there is no more greatness in it, than in the swelling of a dropsy.”
“A man that measures himself by materials, that can be lost in a day, self-worth is always at the expense of those materials. A man that measures himself by his self-development, morals, skills, and intellect, have enough to hold value through time and adversity.”
Source: True Blue
“A man that rich couldn't be stupid. Or, Seema thought now, was that the grand fallacy of twenty-first-century America?”
Source: Lake Success
“A man that runs away may fight again.”
“A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.”
“A man that should call everything by its right name would hardly pass the streets without being knocked down as a common enemy.”
“A man that simply loads himself down with possessions of which he has no actual need, when he dies slips out of them--as a little insect might slip out of some parasite shell into which it has ensconced itself--into the grave, and is forgotten.”
“A man that sleeps all night wastes too much of life.”
Source: Lonesome Dove
“A man that steps aside from the world and has leisure to observe it without interest and design, thinks all mankind as mad as they think him.”
“A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.”
“A man that touches with only his hands, will never be in the same league as the man that touches in places the hands cannot reach.”
“A Man that wants Money thinks none can be unhappy that has it.”
Source: Love's contrivance. Busy body. Marplot. Platonick lady. Perplex'd lovers. Cruel gift
“A man that wants to habitually fornicate with many women should never get married or have children.”
“A man that will go along with six killings is making his escape a little slow.”
Source: Lonesome Dove: A Novel
“A man that will take back a move at Chess will pick a pocket”
“A man that'd expict to thrain lobsters to fly in a year is called a loonytic; but a man that thinks men can be tur-rned into angels by an iliction is called a rayformer an' remains at large.”
“A man that's fond precociously of stirring , :;:; Must be a spoon.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood
“a man there was, though some did count him mad, the more he cast away the more he had.”
“A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.”
“A man thinking or working will always be alone, let him be where he will.”
Source: Walden or, Life in the Woods
“A man thinking with the core of his heart is always willing to change to accept his mistakes while others just crib and duck the mistakes to find fault with others only.”
“A man thinks all dust stays outdoors.”
Source: Gadsby: A Story of Over 50,000 Words Without Using the Letter
“A man thinks he is dying for his country," said Anatole France, "but he is dying for a few industrialists." But even that is saying too much. What one dies for is not even so substantial and tangible as an industrialist.”
Source: Selected Essays: 1934-1943
“A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned”
“A man thirty years old, I said to myself, should have his field of life all ploughed, and his planting well done; for after that it is summer time.”
Source: Ben-Hur [Illustrated]
“A man though carrying God may be of no worth to himself, to his family, to his nation and to the people around him.”
Source: Create Your Own Net Worth
“A man though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind.”
Source: Sophocles
“A man through many struggles many find his own strength.”
“A man to be converted has to give up his will, his ways, and his thoughts.”
Source: The Way Home
“A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own. The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.”
Source: A Defence of Poetry and Other Essays