Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired and discouraged men who kept on working.
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Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired and discouraged men who kept on working.
How terrible is wisdom, when it brings no profit to the man that's wise
It would be a good contest amongst Christians, one to labour to give no offence, and the other to labour to take none. The best men are severe to themselves, tender over others.
The founder of any branch must be more ingenious than the common man. However, if his achievement is not carried on by disciples of the same ingenuity, then things will only become formalized and get stuck in a cul-de-sac; whereby breakthrough and progress will be almost impossible.
The heart of salvation is the Cross of Christ. The reason salvation is so easy to obtain is that it cost God so much. The Cross was the place where God and sinful man merged with a tremendous collision and where the way to life was opened. But all the cost and pain of the collision was absorbed by the heart of God.
If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up, if too small it pinches him.
Feminine traits are called weaknesses. People joke about them; fools ridicule them; but reasonable persons see very well that those traits are just the tools for the management of men, and for the use of men for female designs.
We are not a nation that says, 'Don’t ask, don’t tell.' We are a nation that says, 'Out of many, we are one.' We are a nation that welcomes the service of every patriot. We are a nation that believes that all men and women are created equal. Those are the ideals that generations have fought for. Those are the ideals that we upheld today.
Passion is a young man's game. Young people can be passionate. Older people gotta be more wise. I mean, you're around awhile, you leave certain things to the young. Don't try to act like you're young. You could really hurt yourself.
Man shoot at nothing, sure to hit it.
I don't see myself being special; I just see myself having more responsibilities than the next man. People look to me to do things for them, to have answers.
Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?
I see that the fashion wears out more apparel than the man.
Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.
There's place and means for every man alive.
O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!
There's many a man hath more hair than wit.
The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.
Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.
Women may fall when there's no strength in men.
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