Any man today who returns from work, sinks into a chair, and calls for his pipe is a man with an appetite for danger.
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Man is the creature of circumstances.
It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.
When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.
I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.'
Man is a special being, and if left to himself, in an isolated condition, would be one of the weakest creatures; but associated with his kind, he works wonders.
It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing; his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business.
A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.
The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.
Woe to the man who is always busy - hurried in a turmoil of engagements, from occupation to occupation, and with no seasons interposed of recollection, contemplation and repose! Such a man must inevitably be gross and vulgar, and hard and indelicate - the sort of man with whom no generous spirit would desire to hold intercourse.
A plumber is an adventurer who traces leaky pipes to their source.
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