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'Tis not what man does which exalts him, but what man Would do!


Robert Browning

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ANNE HUTCHINSON What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.
WILLIAM G. GOLDING A free man does not do what must be done, but what should be done.
ERALDO BANOVAC It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL It is not what he had, or even what he does, which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.
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what a fool knows is little,
and what God knows is infini...
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SENECA If a man does not know what port he is steering for, no wind is favorable to him
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SOURCE UNKNOWN Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.
ANONYMOUS Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.
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WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?
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MATTHEW ARNOLD God would never make man in his image,
because that would then make him as vain as what man is.
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ELBERT HUBBARD Failure / The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.
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UNKNOWN A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of the case.
FINLEY PETER DUNNE A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of the case.
FINLEY PETER DUNNE A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of the case.
FINLEY PETER DUNNE A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.
G. K. CHESTERTON Being able to do what you wish is the best thing in the world!
SHIRO AMANO You don't tell an astronaut what to do.
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EDDIE MURPHY What does that man feel like?
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ROBERT BROWNING Lo, life again knocked laughing at the door! The world goes on, goes ever, in and through, And out a...
ROBERT BROWNING Progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beasts': God is, they are, Man partly...
ROBERT BROWNING All men on whom the Higher Nature has stamped the Love of Truth, should especially concern themselve...
ROBERT BROWNING One wise man's verdict outweighs all the fools'
ROBERT BROWNING How very hard it is / To be a Christian!
ROBERT BROWNING I don't know; maybe the guys who got the chance to start were more focused and ready to play.
ROBERT BROWNING Ages past the soul existed, / Here an age 'tis resting merely.
ROBERT BROWNING Our guards really worked hard this summer on their shooting. You can't rely on your shooting all the...
ROBERT BROWNING And after April, when May follows, / And the whitethroat builds, and all the swallows!
ROBERT BROWNING Round the cape of a sudden came the sea, And the sun looked over the mountain's rim: And straight wa...
ROBERT BROWNING Let me not know that all is lost, though lost it be - leave me not tied to this despair, this corpse...
ROBERT BROWNING Better have failed in the high aim, as I, Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed, As God be thanked! I...
ROBERT BROWNING The rest may reason and welcome; 'tis we musicians know.
ROBERT BROWNING Give both the infinitudes their due - / Infinite mercy, but, I wis, / As infinite a justice too.
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