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“A man who honors God privately will show it by making good decisions publicly.”
“A man who honours a worthy man soon earns a great reward; but a man who serves a wicked man ill bestows his service. There's nothing good to be said about wicked men; but... finding a worthy man is quite an event, for they are few and far between! And when one really comes to know some of those thought to be worthy men, one often finds, to put it plainly, nothing in them but a bag of wind. The wicked often deceive people and turn their heads by appearances: there are some very stupid folk who praise a man for his apparent worth, not according to his deeds or wisdom.”
Source: Perceval: The Story of the Grail, with the Continuations
“A man who imagines that because he has a head full of knowledge that he is sufficient for these things had better start learning again. 'Who is sufficient for these things?' What are you doing? You are not simply imparting information, you are dealing with souls, you are dealing with pilgrims on the way to eternity, you are dealing with matters not only of life and death in this world, but with eternal destiny.”
“A man who in the struggles of life has no home to retire to, in fact or in memory, is without life's best rewards and life's best defences.”
“A man who insults the modesty of a woman, as good as tells her that he has seen something in her conduct that warranted his presumption.”
Source: A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...
“A man who invents himself needs someone to believe in him... Not only the need to be believed in, but the need to believe in another. You've got it: Love.”
Source: The Satanic Verses
“A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.”
“A man who is 100% sane is dead.”
“A man who is a genius and doesn't know it, probably isn't.”
“A man who is a man goes on until he can go no further—and then goes twice as far.”
Source: Bomb: The Race to Build--and Steal--the World's Most Dangerous Weapon
“A man who is a miser with his knowledge is worse than a man who is a miser with his money, for the latter is afraid of using up what he possesses but the former is being mean with something which does not get used up and is not lost when it is given away”
“A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be too old to be a clerk or a gardener or a police-court magistrate, that he is ripe to govern a country.”
Source: Cakes and Ale
“A man who is afraid of death will be afraid of life also, because life brings death. If you are afraid of the enemy and you close your door, the friend will also be prohibited.”
“A man who is afraid to die cannot be assigned the task to lead a nation that is willing to remain alive.”
“A man who is afraid will do anything.”
Source: The story of the world: a brief account of the early days of the earth as told in letters to his daughter by Jawaharlal Nehru
“A man who is all theory is like "a rudderless ship on a shoreless sea." ... Theories and speculations may be indulged in with safety only as long as they are based on facts that we can go back to at all times and know that we are on solid ground.”
Source: Nature's Miracles: Familiar Talks on Science
“A man who is always ready to believe what is told him will never do well, especially a businessman.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Petronius (Illustrated)
“A man who is an agnostic by inheritance, so that he doesn't remember any time that he wasn't, has almost no hatred for the religious.”
“A man who is careful with his palate is not likely to be careless with his paragraphs.”
“A man who is certain he is right is almost sure to be wrong.”
Source: The Life and Letters of Faraday
“A man who is convinced of the truth of his religion is indeed never tolerant. At the least, he is to feel pity for the adherent of another religion but usually it does not stop there. The faithful adherent of a religion will try first of all to convince those that believe in another religion and usually he goes on to hatred if he is not successful. However, hatred then leads to persecution when the might of the majority is behind it.”
Source: Einstein's God: Albert Einstein's Quest as a Scientist and as a Jew to Replace a Forsaken God
“A man who is depleted by worry is he who natural immunity is reduced”
“A man who is deprived of criticisms is a miserable and a poor man; a man who ignores or refuses or fears criticisms is a foolish man!”
“A man who is determined never to move out of the beaten road cannot lose his way.”
Source: The round table: a collection of essays on literature, men, and manners, by W. Hazlitt [and J.H.L. Hunt].
“A man who is doing his True Will has the inertia of the Universe to assist him.”
Source: Magick: In Theory and Practice
“A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.”
“A man who is enticed by sinful thoughts is blinded by them, and he sees the action of sin in himself, but he can not see the cause of this action.”
“A man who is fed up with being successful all the time must definitely try failure to feel better!”
“A man who is fighting for the future of mankind is not waiting for torture, he's waiting for -- the Revolution.”
Source: The Judges: A Novel
“A man who is free and unmarried, if he has some intelligence, can rise above his fortune, mingle in society and meet the best people on an equal footing. This is harder for a married man: marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.”
“A man who is free is like a mangy sheep in a herd. He will contaminate my entire kingdom and ruin my work.”
“A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from reason and philosophy.”
Source: Essays, Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste
“A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint, will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from reason and philosophy. - Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding; it dissipates every doubt and scruple in an instant; accommodates itself to the meanest capacities; silences the loud and clamorous, and cringes over the most obstinate and inflexible. - Philip of Macedon was a man of most invincible reason this way. He refuted by it all the wisdom of Athens; confounded their statesmen; struck their orators dumb; and at length argued them out of all their liberties.”
“A man who is good enough to go to heaven is good enough to be a clergyman.”
“A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.”
“A man who is good for anything ought not to calculate the chance of living or dying; he ought only to consider whether in doing anything he is doing right or wrong - acting the part of a good man or of a bad.”
“A man who is good from docility, and not from stern self-control, has no character.”
“A man who is half an idiot, but who keeps a sharp lookout and acts prudently all his life, often enjoys the pleasure of triumphing over men of more imagination than he”
Source: The Charterhouse of Parma
“A man who is ignorant of foreign languages is also ignorant of his own language.”
Source: Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art
“A man who is ill-adjusted to the world is always on the verge of finding himself. One who is adjusted to the world never finds himself, but gets to be a cabinet minister.”
“A man who is intentionally unarmed relies upon the Unseen Force called God by poets, but called the Unknown by scientists.”
Source: The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi
“A man who is intimate with God is not intimidated by man.”
“A man who is intimate with God will never be intimidated by men.”
“A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”
Source: The Picture Of Dorian Gray
“A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure.”
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray (Diversion Classics)
“A man who is morally clean, other things being equal, has in every instance, greater agility, greater capacity, and greater endurance by far than the man who is not. While the latter is wasting his creative energies in useless pleasures, as well as in disease producing habits, the former is turning all of his creative energy into ability and genius, and the result is evident.”
“A man who is more concerned with being a good man than being good at being a man makes a very well-behaved slave.”
“A man who is moved towards doing one thing or another purely by the consciousness of God's will and the desire to please Him, never prefers one activity to another, even if one is great and lofty, and another petty and insignificant; but he has his will equally disposed towards either, so long as they are pleasing to God. So whether he does something lofty and great or petty and insignificant, he remains equally calm and content; for he has but one intention and one aim, to the exclusion of all else — to please God always and in all he does, whether in life or in death, as the Apostle says: 'Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him' (II Cor. v. 9).”
Source: Unseen Warfare: Spiritual Combat against the Passions and the Demonic realm
“A man who is not a father to his children can never be a real man,”
Source: The Godfather
“A man who is not a fool can rid himself of every folly except vanity.”