I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEAnd though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,–cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed us, and burned us, and tortured us, and hence come to love palaces, and fine linen, and purple, and, alas, sometimes, mere luxury and idleness.
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They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can’t fly away.
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But mad people never die. That’s a well-known fact. They’ve nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
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It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man’s interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.
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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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When the little dog snarls, the big dog does not connect the snarl with himself, simply fancying that the little dog must be uncomfortable.
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife? And yet men expect that women shall put on altogether new characters when they are married, and girls think that they can do so.
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There are worse things than a lie… I have found… that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned.
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A man’s love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.
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