Every man's occupation should be beneficial to his fellow-man as well as profitable to himself. All else is vanity and folly.
P. T. BarnumRead
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Every man's occupation should be beneficial to his fellow-man as well as profitable to himself. All else is vanity and folly.
Every man believes he has a greater possibility.
If only every man would make proper use of his strength and do his utmost, he need never regret his limited ability.
Every man is our brother, and every man’s burden is our own. Where poverty exists, all are poorer. Where hate flourishes, all are corrupted. Where injustice reins, all are unequal.
Every man, when he comes to be sensible of his natural rights, and to feel his own importance, will consider himself as fully equal to any other person whatever
Here every man may be master and owner of his owne labour and land...If he have nothing but his hands, he may...by industrie quickly grow rich.
Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.
The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.
Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul.
Every man has a mob self and an individual self, in varying proportions.
Ignorance of the law excuses no man; not that all men know the law, but because 'tis an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to refute him.
How could you set yourself up as the most powerful institution on earth? You first find out what every man feels at least once a day, establish that as a sin, and set yourself up as the only institution capable of pardoning that sin.
The greatest piece of folly is that every man thinks himself compelled to hand down what people think they have known.
Yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner.
Every man is entitled to make a darn fool of himself at least once in a lifetime.
Every man is eloquent once in his life.
God ordained for every man one and the same means of salvation.
Every man needs a blind eye and a deaf ear, so when people applaud, you'll only hear half of it, and when people salute, you'll only see part of it. Believe only half the praise and half the criticism.
Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.
Sport is part of every man and woman's heritage and its absence can never be compensated for.
Every man alone is sincere._x000D_ At the entrance of a second person,_x000D_ hypocrisy begins._x000D_ We parry and fend the approach_x000D_ of our fellow-man by compliments,_x000D_ by gossip, by amusements, by affairs._x000D_ We cover up our thought from him_x000D_ under a hundred folds.
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