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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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• "The noble man is only God's image. [Ger., Der edle Mensch ist nur ein Bild von Gott.]"
  By: Ludwig Tieck, Genoveva
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• "Man's moral nature is a riddle which only eternity can solve."
  By: Henry David Thoreau
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• "What were unenlightened man? A savage, roaming through the woods and wilds in quest of prey."
  By: James Thomson (1)
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• "I am a man, nothing that is human do I think unbecoming in me. [Lat., Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto.]"
  By: Terence (Publius Terentius Afer), Heauton timoroumenos (act I, sc. 1), (F.W. Ricord's translation)
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• "Ah God, for a man with heart, head, hand, Like some of the simple great gone Forever and ever by, One still strong man in a blatant land, Whatever they call him, what care I, Aristocrat, democrat, autocrat--one Who can rule and dare not lie."
  By: Lord Alfred Tennyson, Maud (X, 5)
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• "Man is man, and master of his fate."
  By: Lord Alfred Tennyson, Enid--Song of Fortune and Her Wheel
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• "Man has been lent, not given, to life."
  By: Syrus (Publilius Syrus), Maxims
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• "When I beheld this I sighed, and said within myself, Surely man is a Broomstick!"
  By: Jonathan Swift, A Meditation upon a Broomstick
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• "A man's body and his mind, with the utmost reverence to both I speak it, are exactly like a jerkin and a jerkin's lining;--rumple the one,--you rumple the other."
  By: Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (bk. III, ch. IV)
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• "Titles of honour are like the impressions on coin--which add no value to gold and silver, but only render brass current."
  By: Laurence Sterne, Koran (pt. II)
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• "A man that is temperate, generous, valiant, chaste, faithful, and honest, may, at the same time, have wit, humour, mirth, good breeding, and gallantry. While he exerts these latter qualities, twenty occasions might be invented to show he is master of the other noble virtues."
  By: Sir Richard Steele
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• "Give us a man of God's own mould Born to marshall his fellow-men; One whose fame is not bought and sold At the stroke of a politician's pen. Give us the man of thousands ten, Fit to do as well as to plan; Give us a rallying-cry, and then Abraham Lincoln, give us a Man."
  By: Edmund Clarence Stedman, Give us a Man
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• "A Christian is the gentlest of men; but then he is a man."
  By: Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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• "Man's wretched state, That floures so fresh at morne, and fades at evening late."
  By: Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene (bk. III, canto IX, st. 39)
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• "Of the king's creation you may be; but he who makes a count, ne'er made a man."
  By: Thomas Southerne (Southern), Sir Anthony Love (act II, sc. 1)
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