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“No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause, because his interest would certainly bias his judgment.”
Source: The Federalist Papers: The Making of the US Constitution
“No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause; because his interest would certainly bias his judgment, and, not improbably, corrupt his integrity. With equal, nay with greater reason, a body of men are unfit to be both judges and parties at the same time.”
“No man is an island, entire of itself.”
Source: No man is an island – A selection from the prose
“No man is an island entire of itself; we are all a piece of the continent, connected by the stories we share and the bridges we build between cultures.”
Source: The Invisible Third Culture Adult
“No man is an island entirely of itself. Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind.”
Source: No man is an island – A selection from the prose
“No man is an island unto himself.”
Source: A Sermon of Commemoration of the Lady Danvers, Late Wife of Sr. John Danvers (1627)
“No man is an island, as they say. No. I've tried it. I've gone on retreats at various times in my life for three or four or five days. I was desperate to get out of there and talk to somebody. But I fly fish a lot, and I can only do that really by myself. I find I'm never lonesome when I'm on a river, far from it, but it's a lonely practice.”
“No man is an island, but some of us are long peninsulas.”
“No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee.”
“No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.”
“No man is an island- he is a holon. A Janus-faced entity who, looking inward, sees himself as a self-contained unique whole, looking outward as a dependent part. His self-assertive tendency is the dynamic manifestation of his unique wholeness, his autonomy and independence as a holon. Its equally universal antagonist, the integrative tendency, expresses his dependence on the larger whole to which he belongs: his 'part-ness.'.”
“No man is an island.”
“No man is an island. No man stands alone.”
“No man is an island. To fight the good fight we need help.”
Source: The diary of a magus
“No man is an island. You can ask people for help and they can ask for your help in return.”
“No man is an island; but some are peninsulas.”
“No man is an unbeliever, but because he will be so; and every man is not an unbeliever, because the grace of God conquers some, changes their wills, and binds them to Christ.”
“No man is any the worse off because another acquires wealth by trade, or by the exercise of a profession; on the contrary, he cannot have acquired his wealth except by benefiting others to the extent of what they considered to be its value.”
“No man is as wise as Mother Earth. She has witnessed every human day, every human struggle, every human pain, and every human joy. For maladies of both body and spirit, the wise ones of old pointed man to the hills. For man too is of the dust and Mother Earth stands ready to nurture and heal her children.”
Source: The Seven Paths: Changing One's Way of Walking in the World
“No man is beaten until his hope is annihilated, his confidence gone, As long as a man faces life hopefully, confidently, triumphantly, he is not a failure; he is not beaten until he turns his back on life.”
“No man is born into the world whose work is not born with him.”
Source: Irving Stone, three complete novels
“No man is born into the world whose work is not born with him. There is always work, and tools to work with, for those who will, and blessed are the horny hands of toil. The busy world shoves angrily aside the man who stands with arms akimbo until occasion tells him what to do; and he who waits to have his task marked out shall die and leave his errand unfulfilled.”
Source: The poetical works of James Russell Lowell
“No man is born into the world whose work Is not born with him. There is always work, And tools to work withal, for those who will; And blessed are the horny hands of toil.”
“No man is born unto himself alone; Who lives unto himself, he lives to none.”
“No man is born wise; but wisdom and virtue require a tutor; though we can easily learn to be vicious without a master.”
“No man is born without ambitious worldly desires.”
Source: Critical and Miscellaneous Essays ...
“No man is born without faults.”
Source: Horace literally translated, for the use of students. By William Smart, etc. [In prose.]
“No man is boss in his own home, but he can make up for it, he thinks, by making a dog play dead.”
“No man is bound by the words themselves, either to kill himselfe, or any other man.”
Source: Leviathan
“No man is bound to be rich or great, - no, nor to be wise; but every man is bound to be honest.”
Source: Memoirs of Sir Benjamin Rudyerd: Containing His Speeches and Poems. To which are Added the Letters of His Great-great-grandson Benjamin Rudyerd
“No man is brave that has never walked a hundred miles. If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk until not a person knows your name. Travel is the great leveler, the great teacher, bitter as medicine, crueler than mirror-glass. A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet.”
“No man is brave that has never walked a hundred miles. If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk until not a person knows your name. Travel is the great leveler, the great teacher, bitter as medicine, crueler than mirror-glass. A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet introspection.”
“No man is broken because bad things happen to him. He’s broken because he doesn’t keep going after those things happen.”
Source: Unraveled
“No man is charming all of the time. Even Cary Grant is on record saying he wished he could be Cary Grant.”
“No man is cheaper than he who accepted that he's cheap to continue his cheap action.”
“No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.”
“No man is competent to manage another.”
“No man is competent unless he can stalk alone and armed in the wilderness.”
“No man is crushed by misfortune unless he has first been deceived by prosperity”
Source: Dialogues and Letters
“No man is defeated without some resentment which will be continued with obstinacy while he believes himself in the right, and asserted with bitterness, if even to his own conscience he is detected in the wrong.”
“No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within.”
Source: You learn by living
“No man is disbeliever! Everyone is believer! All men believe in something! If a man does not believe in God, He is a believer too, because he simply believes that God does not exist! Don't give yourself airs just because you believe in something since everyman believes in something! Always be humble!”
“No man is disturbed by things, but by his opinion about things.”
“No man is entirely worthless, he can always serve as a bad example.”
“No man is equal to his book. All the best products of his mental activity go into his book, where they come separated from the mass of inferior products with which they are mingled in his daily talk.”
Source: An Autobiography, Part 1
“No man is esteemed for colorful garments except by fools and women.”
“No man is ever as anti-feminist as a really feminine woman.”
“No man is ever innocent when his opponent is the judge.”
“No man is ever just one thing.”
Source: The Enchantress
“No man is ever old enough to know better.”