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SOREN KIERKEGAARD But Thy good word informs my soul How I may climb to heaven.
ISAAC WATTS What a man has made himself he will be; his state is the result of his past life, and his heaven or ...
CATHERINE CROWE If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. Ho...
BLAISE PASCAL Man," I cried, "how ignorant art thou in thy pride of wisdom!
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Man, I cried, "how ignorant art thou in thy pride of wisdom!"
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Every man is as Heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.
CERVANTES Man is the creature with a mystery in his heart that is bigger than himself.
HANS URS VON BALTHASAR The great man is the man who can get himself made and who will get himself made out of anything he ...
GERALD STANLEY LEE Unless above himself he can / Erect himself, how poor a thing is man.
SAMUEL DANIEL Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other pers...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other pe...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON And that unless above himself he canErect himself, how poor a thing is man.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.
GEORGE ORWELL It is remarkable how easily and insensibly we fall into a particular route, and make a beaten track ...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Nature's great law, and law of all men's minds?-- To its own impulse every creature stirs; Liv...
MATTHEW ARNOLD You can measure the true strength of a man by how well he controls others, but you measure his true ...
AMARI SOUL how hard you worked for what you wanted. how cruelly fate betrayed you in the end.
LAUREN KATE Man is a mind betrayed, not served, by his organs.
EDMOND DE GONCOURT Man is a mind betrayed, not served, by his organs.
EDMOND AND JULES DE GONCOURT If thou desirest to be safe, turn at once in thy emptiness to God. If thou hast been inconsistent, h...
JOHANNES TAULER How can a young man keep his way pure? By keeping it according to Thy Word. Thy Word I have treasure...
BIBLE Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.
ERIC HOFFER No man can resolve himself into Heaven.
DWIGHT L. MOODY One’s strength is not determined by how he fares in his endeavor.One’s strength is determined by...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Heaven is by favor; if it were by merit your dog would go in and you would stay out. Of all the crea...
MARK TWAIN A man who has nothing which he cares about more than he does about his personal safety is a miserabl...
JOHN STUART MILL A great business man must have two stock answers when asked by a client to jump; How quick and how h...
RICHARD 'GRIMESY' GRIMES Rich, only to be wretched, thy great fortunesAre made thy chief afflictions.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The intention of the Holy Ghost is to teach us how one goes to heaven, not how heaven goes.
GALILEO GALILEI Matthew,” she murmured, her voice breaking. “How can I save you?
CHARLOTTE FEATHERSTONE When he sacrifices himself man for a moment is greater than God, for how can God, infinite and omnip...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM Go thy way, and tell my people, the people of thy Lord God what manner of things, and how great wond...
COMPTON GAGE When thou art quiet and silent, then art thou as God was before nature and creature; thou art that w...
JACOB BOEHME How frail the human heart must be - a mirrored pool of thought.
SYLVIA PLATH How frail the human heart must be --a mirrored pool of thought...
SYLVIA PLATH How frail the human heart must be―a mirrored pool of thought.
SYLVIA PLATH How slight a thing will disturb the equanimity of our frail minds!
CHARLES DICKENS A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own...
JOHN STUART MILL We only betray ourselves. No one is betrayed except by himself. One way to betray yourself is to try...
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JONI EARECKSON TADA A man who has nothing for which he willing to fight; nothing he cares about more than his own per...
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CONNIE MACK Real success in life means the individual's conquest of himself; it means how he has bettered himse...
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DAVID FRUM Fiona: Where's Gareth?
Matthew: Torturing Americans.
Fiona: How thoughtful of him.
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PHILIP JAMES BAILEY Let each man think himself an act of God, His mind a thought, his life a breath of God; And let each...
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY Man is a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
MARK TWAIN A man by himself is in bad company.
ERIC HOFFER Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul.
HENRY WARD BEECHER And David saw himself reflected in the Woodsman's eyes, and there he was no longer old but a young m...
JOHN CONNOLLY If a man carefully examines his thoughts he will be surprised to find how much he lives in the futur...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.
CORMAC MCCARTHY Man is made or unmade by himself. In the armory of thought he forges the weapons by which he destroy...
JAMES ALLEN God help thee, old man, thy thoughts have created a creature in thee; and he whose intense thinking ...
HERMAN MELVILLE None but the well-bred man knows how to confess a fault, or acknowledge himself in an error.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of ...
JOHN MORLEY Man is the only creature in the animal kingdom that sits in judgment on the work of the Creator and ...
ELBERT HUBBARD How can finite man commune with an infinite God? To both Christians and Jews, God himself has made t...
MEIR SOLOVEICHIK My son Matthew's beloved dog is a Jack Russell. His name is Buster. Matthew picked him as a pupp...
ROB LOWE I charge thee, Satan, housed within this man, To yield possession to my holy prayers, And to t...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE For Jesus, the question wasn’t, “How do I get into heaven?” but “How do I bring heaven here?
ROB BELL To the malevolent person who, out of spite, uses other people's circumstantial weaknesses to get the...
ASSYA MOUSSAID This is how memories are made... by going with the flow.
AMANDA BYNES He's gone, and who knows how may he report Thy words by adding fuel to the flame?
JOHN MILTON Flag of the free heart's hope and home! By angel hands to valour given, Thy stars have lit the...
JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE How shall we embrace the common man: give us a reason without a doubt?
Is Everyman fated as an ...
DAVID B. LENTZ The great and glorious masterpiece of man is how to live with purpose.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE The great and glorious masterpiece of man is how to live with purpose.
MICHEL EYQUEM Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memor...
WILLIAM GODWIN I felt betrayed by him, extremely betrayed. He made me believe that if I followed a certain protocol...
KELLI WHITE The measure of a man is not how great his faith is, but how great his love is. We must not let gover...
J. C. WATTS It's impressive how such a tiny creature in sheer numbers can drive you insane.
JASON HILL You know how a person is made for something? Eminem is made for hip-hop. The best rapper is a white ...
CURTIS JACKSON Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, ho...
JOHANNES TAULER Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how...
JOHANNES TAULER Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON All glory to Adonai!
Great is thy love.
Great is thy mercy.
Great is thy faithfulnes...
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA It's a match made in heaven...by a retarded angel.
WOODY ALLEN We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes ...
JOS We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes ...
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes ...
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is t...
MORRIS WEST To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest serv...
BENJAMIN JOWETT How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do th...
JOHANN VON GOETHE How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do th...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE It is often tragic to see how blatantly a man bungles his own life and the lives of others yet remai...
C.G. JUNG The beast in me Is caged by frail and fragile bars
JOHNNY CASH How long does it take man to realize that he cannot want what he wants? You have to live in hell to ...
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MATTHEW DESMOND Sanctified afflictions are spiritual promotions.
MATTHEW HENRY Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the tri...
MATTHEW HENRY In whatever adulation you get, there's truth and there's not truth. And wherever they dog yo...
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY Like ministers of information, consultants condense the message, smooth out the dissonances, unify t...
MATTHEW STEWART Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your ange...
MATTHEW PRIOR I don't think we can fix poverty without fixing housing, and I don't think we can address ho...
MATTHEW DESMOND I'm trying to inform people, so I try to present them with accurate information.
MATTHEW YGLESIAS He wanted to play accordion on something of mine and I said you can play accordion, but I want you t...
MATTHEW SWEET To the factory farmer, in contrast to the traditional farmer with his sense of honor and obligation,...
MATTHEW SCULLY I think there's a time in your life where you don't feel like you fit in. I think everyone h...
MATTHEW VAUGHN I've been in a couple of weddings where the coolest people that were the most day before so mell...
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY I'm one of the most adaptable guys I know in as much as travelling is my favourite thing to do i...
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY Eve was not taken out of Adam's head to top him, neither out of his feet to be trampled on by hi...
MATTHEW HENRY There's a gap between what I want to do, what I do on camera, and what gets edited. Right? So th...
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY There's a discipline. When you take someone's portrait, you don't have to take 50 photog...
MATTHEW MODINE I had a realization in the midst of my happy marriage that I had kind of lost most of my friends - m...
MATTHEW WEINER Sure, I can get a little bit jealous. The good part about jealousy is that it comes from passion. It...
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
MATTHEW ARNOLD My rule is to break one sweat a day.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY