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• A man does not look behind the door unless he has stood there himself. -- Du Boi
• A man who has nothing which he is willing to fight fo
  othing which he cares about more than he does about his personal safety, is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself....
• He who is outside his door already has a hard part of his journey behind him. Dutch Proverb
• Unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man!
  -- Samuel Daniel (1562-1619) -- To the Countess of Cumberland, Stanza 12...
• A man cannot speak but he judges himself...no man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.
  -- Emerso...
• No man has a right to do as he pleases, unless he pleases to do right.
• The truly proud man knows neither superiors or inferiors.
  The first he does not admit of -- the last he does not concern himself about. -- William Hazli...
• But if a man happens to find himself ... he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life.
• No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
  --Ed Howe...