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The salvation of man is through love and in love. I
- Viktor E. Frankl
Love is the ultimate and highest goal to which a man can aspire. The salvation of man is through love and in love...
- Viktor E. Frankl
An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior. Even we psychiatrists expect the reactions of a man to an abnormal situation, such as being committed to an asylum, to be abnormal in proportion to the degree of his normality.
- Viktor E. Frankl
And just as the animal is at times misled by the vital instincts, so may man go astray... whereas the ethical instinct alone enables him to discover the unique requirement of a unique situation
- Viktor E. Frankl
It is not possible to know how far the influence of any amiable, honest-hearted duty-doing man flies out into the world, but it is very possible to know how it has touched one's self in going by.
- Charles Dickens
He has got his discharge, by G-! said the man. He had. But he had grown so like death in life, that they knew not when he died.
- Charles Dickens
I really think this must be a man!" was Mr. Lorry's breathless reflection, simultaneously with his coming against the wall.)
- Charles Dickens
He [Mr. Snagsby] is a mild, bald, timid man with a shining head and a scrubby clump of black hair sticking out at the back. He tends to meekness and obesity.
- Charles Dickens
For neither Man nor Angel can discern Hypocrisy, the only evil that walks Invisible, except to God alone, By his permissive will, through Heaven and Earth: And oft, though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps At wisdom's gate, and to simplicity Resigns her charge, while goodness thinks no ill Where no ill seems...
- John Milton
After a partial cessation of his sensuous life, the soul of man, or its organs, rather, are reinvigorated each day, and his Genius tries again what noble life it can make.
- Henry David Thoreau
Does not the gratitude of the dog put to shame any man who is ungrateful to his benefactors?
- St. Basil
There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.
- William Temple