Man Quotes

• "Ah! how unjust to nature, and himself, Is thoughtless, thankless, inconsistent man."
  By: Edward Young, Night Thoughts (night II, l. 112)
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• "How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man! How passing wonder He, who made him such!"
  By: Edward Young, Night Thoughts (night I, l. 68)
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• "Poor pensioner on the bounty of an hour."
  By: Edward Young
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• "I weigh the man, not his title: 'tis not the king's inscription can make the metal better or heavier."
  By: William Wycherley, Plain Dealer (act I, sc. 1)
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• "The soul of man createth its own destiny of power; and as the trial is intenser here, his being hath a nobler strength in heaven."
  By: Nathaniel Parker Willis
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• "When faith is lost, when honor dies, The man is dead!"
  By: John Greenleaf Whittier, Ichabod (st. 8)
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• "Man is more than constitutions."
  By: John Greenleaf Whittier
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• "I am an acme of thing accomplished, and I am encloser of things to be."
  By: Walt Whitman, Song of Myself (44)
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• "A man is a great thing upon the earth and through eternity; but every jot of the greatness of man is unfolded out of woman."
  By: Walt Whitman
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• "Man, considered not merely as an organized being, but as a rational agent and a member of society, is perhaps the most wonderfully contrived, and to us the most interesting specimen of Divine wisdom that we have any knowledge of."
  By: Archbishop Richard Whately
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• "Silver is the king's stamp; man God's stamp, and a woman is man's stamp; we are not current till we pass from one man to another."
  By: John Webster, Northward Ho (I, 186), (Hazlitt's edition)
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• "Every want, not of a low kind, physical as well as moral, which the human breast feels, and which brutes do not feel, and cannot feel, raises man by so much in the scale of existence, and is a clear proof, and a direct instance, of the favor of God toward his so much favored human offspring."
  By: Daniel Webster
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• "The very substance which last week was grazing in the field, waving in the milk pail, or growing in the garden, is now become part of the man."
  By: Isaac Watts
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• "Oh, we are ridiculous animals; and if the angels have any fun in them, how we must divert them!"
  By: Horace (Horatio) Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford
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• "What, if as said, man is a bubble. [Lat., Quod, ut dictur, si est homo bulla, eo magis senex.]"
  By: Marcus Terentius Varro, Preface to De Re Rustica
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