A man does not look behind the door unless he has stood there himself.

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• A man does not look behind the door unless he has stood there himself.
  -- Du...
• A man who has nothing which he is willing to fight for,
  nothing which he cares about more than he does about...
• He who is outside his door already has a hard part of his journey behind him.
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• Unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man!
  Samuel Daniel (1562-1619) -- To the Countess of Cumberland...
• A man cannot speak but he judges himself..
  no man thoroughly understands a truth until he has...
• 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...
• But if a man happens to find himself ...
  he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity...
• No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has
  a better opinion of him than he deserves. --Ed...