“Every man makes his own summer. The season has no character of its own, unless one is a farmer with a professional concern for the weather.”
Three Worlds, Three Summers — But Not the Summer Just Past.
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"On the Weather".
Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886)
“His own character is the arbiter of every one's fortune.”
Maxim 283
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
“Every stage of life has its troubles, and no man is content with his own age.”
Omne aevum curae; cunctis sua displicet aetas.
Eclogae 2, line 10; translation from Hugh Gerard Evelyn White Ausonius ([1919-21] 1951) vol. 1, p. 165.
“Every man has a right to his own opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.”
Deming Headlight (New Mexico), 6 January 1950, as cited in the Yale Book of Modern Proverbs and at There Are Opinions, And Then There Are Facts; Freakonomics blog post by Fred R. Shapiro http://www.freakonomics.com/2011/08/18/there-are-opinions-and-then-there-are-facts/ (18 August 2011)
“Every man has his own reason for every deed. Usually it is selfish.”
Source: Drenai series, Quest for Lost Heroes, Ch. 10
4 Burr. Part IV., 2379.
Dissenting in Millar v Taylor (1769)
Source: The Absorbent Mind (1949), Ch. 27 : The Teacher's Preparation, p. 283; part of this has become paraphrased as :
Context: One who has drunk at the fountain of spiritual happiness says good-by of his own accord to the satisfactions that come from a higher professional status … What is the greatest sign of success for a teacher thus transformed? It is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."