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“No man can really succeed if he doesn't move away from where he was born. I believe it is particularly true for the writer.”
“No man can receive the Holy Ghost without receiving revelations. The Holy Ghost is a revelator.”
“No man can resolve himself into Heaven.”
“No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.”
Source: The Prophet
“No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge. The teacher who walks in the shadow of the temple, among his followers, gives not of his wisdom but rather of his faith and his lovingness. If he is indeed wise he does not bid you enter the house of his wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshold of your own mind.”
Source: Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces
“No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.”
“No man can rid him of himself and live, for that involves an impossibility. But he can rid himself of that haunting shadow of his own self, which he has pampered and fed upon shadowy lies, until it is bloated and black with pride and folly. When that demon-king of shades is once cast out, and the man's house is possessed of God instead, then first he finds his true substantial self, which is the servant- nay, the child- of God. To rid you of yourself you must offer it again to Him who made it. Be empty so that He may fill you.”
Source: The Last Castle
“No man can rightfully be required to join, or support, an association whose protection he does not desire.”
“No man can roan or inhabit the Canadian North without it affecting him, and the artist, because of his constant habit of awareness and his discipline in expression, is perhaps more understanding of its moods and spirit than others are. He is thus better equipped to interpret it to others, and then, when her has become one with its spirit, to create living works in their own right, by using forms, colors, rhythms and moods, to make a harmonious home for the imaginative and spiritual meaning it has evoked in him.”
Source: The Best of the Group of Seven
“No man can rob successfully over a period of years without pleasing the people he robs.”
Source: Microcosmic God
“No man can rule the unruly until he first rules himself.”
Source: Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze
“No man can run up the natural line of Evolution without coming to Christianity at the top.”
“No man can safely speak, unless he who would gladly remain silent.”
“No man can see his own prejudices.”
Source: A few days in Athens: being the translation of a Greek manuscript discovered in Herculaneum
“No man can see over his own height. Let me explain what I mean. You cannot see in another man any more than you have in yourself. Your own level strictly determines the extent to which he comes within your understanding. If your intelligence is unawakened, mental qualities in another, even though they be of the highest kind, will have no effect on you at all… his higher mental qualities will no more exist for you than colors exist for those who cannot see.”
“No man can sincerely resolve to apply to his daily life the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth without sensing a change in his own nature. The phrase, 'born again', has a deeper significance than many people attach to it. This changed feeling may be indescribable, but it is real.”
“No man can sit down and withhold his hands from the warfare against wrong and get peace from his acquiescence.”
Source: Woodrow Wilson: Essential Writings and Speeches of the Scholar-president
“No man can smile in the face of adversity and mean it.”
“No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.”
Source: Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition
“No man can suffer too much, and no man can fall too soon, if he suffer or if he fall in defense of the liberties and Constitution of his country.”
Source: The Union Text Book: Containing Selections from the Writings of Daniel Webster, The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States, and Washington's Farewell Address
“No man can survey himself without forthwith turning his thoughts towards the God in whom he lives and moves; because it is perfectly obvious, that the endowments which we possess cannot possibly be from ourselves; nay, that our very being is nothing else than subsistence in God alone.”
Source: Institutes of the Christian Religion
“No man can take your freedom from you. They can limit your mobility, but that's about all they can do”
Source: Passion's Promise
“No man can tame a predator by acting like prey.”
“No man can tame a tiger into a kitten by stroking it.”
“No man can tame a tiger into a kitten by stroking it. There can be no appeasement with ruthlessness. There can be no reasoning with an incendiary bomb.”
“No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.”
Source: Selected poetry and prose
“No man can teach another self-knowledge. He can only lead him or her up to self-discovery - the source of truth.”
“No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.”
Source: The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor ...: Clerus domini. Office ministerial. Discourse of friendship. Rules and advices to the clergy. Heber's Life of Bp. Taylor, and indexes to the ten volumes
“No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.”
Source: The World in Falseface
“No man can thoroughly master more than one art or science.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“No man can use his Bible with power unless he has the character of Jesus in his heart.”
Source: The Making of a Man of God (Alan Redpath Library): Lessons from the Life of David
“No man can use his brain to think for another.”
Source: Ayn Rand Reader
“No man can walk so long in the Shadow that he cannot come again to the Light.”
Source: The Great Hunt
“No man can well doubt the propriety of placing a president of the United States under the most solemn obligations to preserve, protect, and defend the constitution.”
Source: Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States: With a Preliminary Review of the Constitutional History of the Colonies and States, Before the Adoption of the Constitution
“No man can well doubt the propriety of placing a president of the United States under the most solemn obligations to preserve, protect, and defend the constitution. It is a suitable pledge of his fidelity and responsibility to his country; and creates upon his conscience a deep sense of duty, by an appeal, at once in the presence of God and man, to the most sacred and solemn sanctions which can operate upon the human mind.”
Source: Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States: With a Preliminary Review of the Constitutional History of the Colonies and States, Before the Adoption of the Constitution
“No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.”
“No man can write who is not first a humanitarian”
“No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.”
“No man chooses evil because it's evil. He only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.”
Source: A Vindication of the Rights of Women & a Vindication of the Rights of Men
“No man comes out of his own memorandum of conversation looking second best.”
“No man commits evil for the sake of it; even the Devil himself has some farther design in sinning, than barely the wicked part of it.”
Source: The Complete Adventures of Robinson Crusoe – 3 Books in One Volume (Illustrated): The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe & Serious Reflections of Robinson Crusoe
“No man complains of his neighbor for ill management of his affairs, for an error in sowing his land, or marrying his daughter, for consuming his substance in taverns ... in all these he has liberty; but if he does not frequent the church, or then conform in ceremonies, there is an immediate uproar.”
“No man could be actively nonviolent and not rise against social injustice, no matter where it occurred.”
Source: All Men Are Brothers
“No man could be equipped for the presidency if he has never been tempted by one of the seven cardinal sins.”
“No man could bring himself to reveal his true character, and, above all, his true limitations as a citizen and a Christian, his true meannesses, his true imbecilities, to his friends, or even to his wife. Honest autobiography is therefore a contradiction in terms: the moment a man considers himself, even in petto, he tries to gild and fresco himself. Thus a man's wife, however realistic her view of him, always flatters him in the end, for the worst she sees in him is appreciably better, by the time she sees it, than what is actually there.”
Source: Mencken Chrestomathy
“No man could look upon another as his enemy, unless he first became his own enemy.”
Source: To the Protagonists of Pakistan
“No man dares to condemn the Christian faith today, because the Christian faith has not been tried. Not until men get rid of the thought that it is a poor machine, an expedient for saving them from suffering and pain; not until they get the grand idea of it as the great power of God present in and through the lives of men; not until then does Christianity enter upon its true trial and become ready to show what it can do.”
“No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.”
“No man dies before his hour. The time you leave behind was no more yours, than that which was before your birth, and concerneth you no more.”
Source: Shakespeare's Montaigne: The Florio Translation of the Essays, A Selection
“No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.”
Source: The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde