Show me a better man. Name one and I am answered; but do not point, as a disqualification, to the very facts which make this man fit beyond all others.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
A man who prides himself on being better than his fellow-men thinks it a disgrace if he does not do something more than they do, whereby his superiority may be apparent.
A man is not good or bad for one action.
I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.
The greatest man is he who forms the taste of a nation; the next greatest is he who corrupts it.
The man who has done his best has done everything.
I really reject that kind of comparison that says, Oh, he is the best. This is the second best. There is no such thing.
It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.
The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.
It takes a mighty good man to be better than no man at all.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
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