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“A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.”
Source: A Faulkner perspective: a companion-guide to the limited first edition of the Selected letters of William Faulkner
“A man's moral sense must be unusually strong if slavery does not make him a thief.”
Source: Jefferson: Political Writings
“A man's moral worth is not measured by what his religious beliefs are but rather by what emotional impulses he has received from Nature during his lifetime.”
“A man's most glorious actions will at last be found to be but glorious sins, if he hath made himself, and not the glory of God, the end of those actions.”
Source: The privie key of heaven; or Twenty arguments for closet-prayer, in a select discourse
“A man's most open actions have a secret side to them.”
Source: Joseph Conrad Ultimate Collection: 18 Novels, 20+ Short Stories, Letters & Memoirs: Including Classics like Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, The Duel, The Secret Agent, Nostromo, Victory, The Shadow-Line & Under Western Eyes
“A man's most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe.”
Source: Euripides IV: Helen, The Phoenician Women, Orestes
“A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault.”
Source: Literary Studies (Miscellaneous Essays): Hartley Coleridge. Shakespeare, the man. William Cowper. The first Edinburgh reviewers. Edward Gibbon. Percy Bysshe Shelley
“A man's motive in the small actions of daily life, like resting a moment on his pitchfork in the sun and listening intently, may be the most important thing about that man.”
Source: A letter to St. Augustine: after re-reading his confessions
“A man's name is not like a mantle which merely hangs about him...but a perfectly fitting garment, which, like the skin, has grown over him, at which one cannot rake and scrape without injuring the man himself.”
“A man's name, title, and rank are artificial and impermanent; they do nothing to reveal what he really is, even to himself.”
Source: Three plays
“A man's natural rights are his own, against the whole world; and any infringement of them is equally a crime, whether committed by one man, or by millions; whether committed by one man, calling himself a robber, (or by any other name indicating his true character,) or by millions, calling themselves a government.”
Source: No Treason: No. 1-
“A man's needs are few. The simpler the life, therefore, the better. Indeed, only three things are truly necessary in order to make life happy: the blessing of God, the benefit of books, and the benevolence of friends.”
“A man's not doing much until the cause he works for possesses all there is of him. Desire, when harnessed, is power.”
“A man's only as old as the woman he feels.”
“A man's opinion is in others; his being is in himself.”
Source: The Works of Joseph Hall: Devotional works
“A man's opinion of danger varies at different times, in consequence of an irregular tide of animal spirits; and he is actuated by considerations which he dares not avow.”
Source: The History of England: From the Revolution in 1688, to the Death of George II. Designed as a Continuation of Hume
“A man's opinions are generally of much more value than his arguments.”
“A man's own addition to what he learns is cement to bind an otherwise loose heap of stones into a structure of unity, strength, and use.”
“A man's own conscience is his sole tribunal, and he should care no more for that phantom "opinion" than he should fear meeting a ghost if he crossed the churchyard at dark.”
“A man's own dinner is to himself so important that he cannot bring himself to believe that it is a matter utterly indifferent to anyone else.”
Source: The Complete Chronicles of Barsetshire: The Warden, Barchester Towers, Doctor Thorne, Framley Parsonage, The Small House at Allington, The Last Chronicle of Barset (Unabridged): Collection of six historical novels dealing with politics and romance - Classics of English literature from the author of The Eustace Diamonds, He Knew He Was Right and The Prime Minister
“A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.”
“A man's own heart must ever be given to gain that of another.”
Source: The Vicar of Wakefield, a Tale: To which is Annexed The Deserted Village ...
“A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him.”
“A man's own self is the last person to believe in him, and is harder to cheat than the rest of the world.”
Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more
“A man's own vanity is a swindler that never lacks for a dupe.”
“A man's palate can, in time, become accustomed to anything.”
“A man's passion for the mountain is, above all, his childhood which refuses to die.”
“A man's past keeps growing, even when his future has come to a full stop.”
Source: Last Man in Tower
“A man's penmanship is an unfailing index of his character, moral and mental, and a criterion by which to judge his peculiarities of taste and sentiments.”
“A man's perfection is his work.”
“A man's personal defects will commonly have with the rest of the world precisely that importance which they have to himself. If he makes light of them, so will other men.”
Source: The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life
“A man's personality is matured only when he appropriates the truth, whether it is spoken by Balaam's ass or a sniggering wag or an apostle or an angel.”
“A man's physical hunger does not prove that man will get any bread; he may die of starvation on a raft in the Atlantic. But surely a man's hunger does prove that he comes of a race which repairs its body by eating and inhabits a world where eatable substances exist. In the same way, though I do not believe (I wish I did) that my desire for Paradise proves that I shall enjoy it, I think it a pretty good indication that such a thing exists and that some men will.”
Source: Weight of Glory
“A man's potential for God lies not in his ability, nor in his opportunity, but in his humility before God.”
“A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol, and so to utter it, depends on the simplicity of his character, that is, upon his love of truth, and his desire to communicate it without loss.”
Source: Essays, lectures and orations
“A man's presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you. By contrast, a woman's presence... defines what can and cannot be done to her.”
“A man's pride can be his downfall, and he needs to learn when to turn to others for support and guidance.”
“A man's primary fantasy is access to a variety of attractive women without the fear of rejection.”
“A man's profundity may keep him from opening on a first interview, and his caution on a second; but I should suspect his emptiness, if he carried on his reserve to a third.”
Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
“A man's pursuit of knowledge is greater than his shortcomings, the limits of his vision.”
Source: Thrall: Poems
“A man's reaction to his appetites and impulses when they are roused gives the measure of that man's character. In these reactions are revealed the man's power to govern or his forced servility to yield.”
“A man's readiness and commitment are not enough if he does not enjoy help from above as well; equally help from above is no benefit to us unless there is also commitment and readiness on our part.”
“A man's reading program should be as carefully planned as his daily diet, for that too is food, without which he cannot grow mentally.”
“A man's real and deep feelings are surely those which he acts upon when challenged, not those which, mellow-eyed and soft-voiced, he spouts in easy times.”
Source: The Desegregated Heart: A Virginian’s Stand in Time of Transition
“A man's real belief is that which he lives by. What a man believes is the thing he does, not the thing he thinks.”
“A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natural love.”
“A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.”
Source: Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country
“A man's reception depends upon his coat; his dismissal upon the wit he shows.”
“A man's relationship with the Bible is an exact picture of His relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ.”
“A man's religion consists, not of the many things he is in doubt of and tries to believe, but of the few he is assured of and has no need of effort for believing.”
Source: Works