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«If depression is creeping up and must be faced, learn something about the nature of the beast: You may escape without a mauling.»
«I hold a beast, an angel and a madman in me, and my enquiry is as to their working, and my problem is their subjugation and victory, downthrow and upheaval, and my effort is their self-expression.»
«He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.»
«One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to.»
«Never sell the bear's skin before one has killed the beast.»
«It had been hard for him that spake it to have put more truth and untruth together, in few words, than in that speech: `Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast, or a god'.»
«He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: beast, rid, rid of
«No one who, like me, conjures up the most evil of those half-tamed demons that inhabit the human beast, and seeks to wrestle with them, can expect to come through the struggle unscathed.»
«It ain't a fit night out for man or beast.»
Author: W. C. Fields (Actor, Comic) | Keywords: beast
«How all occasions do inform against me.And spur my dull revenge! What is a man,If his chief good and market of his timeBe but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more.»

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