No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity.
Edmund Burke
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JELANI COBB No man can discover his own talents.
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CARLOS WALLACE Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life
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BIBLE Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
ANONYMOUS Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
BIBLE No man can make another a debtor against his will
LEGAL MAXIM If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
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BEN YEARSLEY No man is to be credited for his mere authority's sake, unless he can show Scripture for the mai...
JOHN WYCLIFFE No author can be as moral as his work and no preacher as pious as his sermons.
JEAN PAUL No author can be as moral as his work and no preacher as pious as his sermons.
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JACK CRUMBLISS Most people will not stand up to injustice unless their comfort of living is severely threatened. Th...
SUZY KASSEM A man can live on his wits and his balls for only so long.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON No man deserves punishment for his thoughts.
ANONYMOUS No man's credit is as good as his money.
JOHN DEWEY There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or h...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN No man is responsible for his father. That was entirely his mother's affair.
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CHRISTINE DE PIZAN No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.
SOURCE UNKNOWN No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.
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GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath no man manages his affairs as well as...
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ELIJAH PARISH LOVEJOY His fidelity to the cliche transcended the necessity to communicate.
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EDMUND BURKE No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end faste...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS This is my commandment, that ye love one another, even as I have loved you. Greater love hath no m...
BIBLE No man can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all his accomplices.
EDWARD R. MURROW The greatest gift a man can give his mum
is his respect for femininity,always
JOSEPH ANNANG SOWAH No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work.
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SIR FRANCIS DOYLE If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowled...
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ANN SHARPSTEEN Can any man sacrifice is life for his fellow man?
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JOHN MARSHALL HARLAN No man is beaten until his hope is annihilated, his confidence gone, As long as a man faces life hop...
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LYSANDER SPOONER A man is as wise as his head, not his years.
TURKISH PROVERB As your beliefs are so you will be, for man can never rise above his beliefs.
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VASH YOUNG No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character.
JOHN MORLEY No man should live where he can hear his neighbor's dog bark.
NATHANIEL MACON No man can be stolen who doesn't consent to his own theft.
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There is...
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO No man his the master of his fate.
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KAHLIL GIBRAN As if a woman ever loved a man for his virtue.
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GEOFF KORS No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man can store up in his ghosty heart.
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HARRY REID No living man can send me to the shades
Before my time; no man of woman born,
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WOODROW WILSON "A man who changes his thoughts can change his life; a man who changes his life can change the lives...
TAMARA N. GREEN No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach
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JOSEPH CONRAD The man that hath no music in himself, nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for tre...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such
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CRAIG RUSSELL A man without money has a hole in his pocket. A man with holes in his pocket has no money
GREG GAZIN Freedom is for honest people. No man who is not himself honest can be free he is his own trap.
L. RON HUBBARD Freedom is for honest people. No man who is not himself honest can be free – he is his own trap.
L. RON HUBBARD The man I am today it's not the man of yesterday
CHRISTOPHER FUDGE The finest compliment you can pay a man is that his word was as good as gold.
EVEL KNIEVEL That man can interrogate as well as observe nature was a lesson slowly learned in his evolution.
SIR WILLIAM OSLER Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
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EDMUND BURKE Illustrious Predecessor.
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EDMUND BURKE All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
EDMUND BURKE To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
EDMUND BURKE Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.
EDMUND BURKE The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
EDMUND BURKE It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
EDMUND BURKE But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and ...
EDMUND BURKE The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please; we ought to see what it w...
EDMUND BURKE He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoder...
EDMUND BURKE Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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