A man was defined, in my father's circles, by what he could bear, the pain he could shrug off, the warmth or comfort he could deny himself.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My old man tried to force on me a notion of what it was to be a 'man.' And it destroyed my dad.
Man - a being in search of meaning.
My grandfather was raising me, and in many respects, I was trying to understand what it meant to be a man. He was my role model.
A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be.
A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.
It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
I can't be a man. But I can embrace the head of a man, the intelligence of a man, the spirit of a man.
It is almost the definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
I used to think I needed a man to define myself. Not any more.
A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.
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