Man Quotes

• "But in our Sanazarro 'tis not so, He being pure and tried gold; and any stamp Of grace, to make him current to the world, The duke is pleased to give him, will add honour To the great bestower; for he, though allow'd Companion to his master, still preserves His majesty in full lustre."
  By: Philip Massinger, Great Duke of Florence (act I, sc. 1)
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• "Our page (i.e. our book) has reference to man. [Lat., Hominem pagina nostra sapit.]"
  By: Martial (Marcus Valerius Martialis), Epigrams (bk. X, 4, 10)
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• "A man! A man! My kingdom for a man!"
  By: John Marston, Scourge of Villainy
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• "Man is improvable. Some people think he is only a machine, and that the only difference between a man and a mill is, that one is carried by blood and the other by water."
  By: Horace Mann
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• "The hearts of men are their books; events are their tutors; great actions are their eloquence."
  By: Thomas Babington Macaulay, Essays--Conversation Touching the Great Civil War
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• "Before man made us citizens, great Nature made us men."
  By: James Russell Lowell, The Capture of Fugitive Slaves Near Washington
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• "A man of mark."
  By: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Tales of a Wayside Inn (pt. I, The Musician's Tale--Saga of King Olaf, pt. IX, st. 2)
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• "The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence and obsolescence."
  By: Art Linkletter, A Child's Garden of Misinformation (ch. 8)
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• "The history of the race is but that of the individual "writ large.""
  By: George Henry Lewes
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• "As man; false man, smiling destructive man."
  By: Nathaniel Lee, Theodosius (act III, sc. 2, l. 50)
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• "There are but three classes of men, the retrograde, the stationary, and the progressive."
  By: Johann Kaspar Lavater (John Caspar Lavater)
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• "It is easier to know mankind in general than man individually. [Fr., Il est plus aise de connaitre l'homme en general que de connaitre un homme en particulier.]"
  By: Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld, Maximes (436)
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• "Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens."
  By: Alphonse de Lamartine, Second Meditations
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• "Bounded in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who has a recollection of heaven."
  By: Alphonse de Lamartine
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• "There are but three general events which happen to mankind: birth, life, and death. Of their birth they are insensible, they suffer when they die, and neglect to live."
  By: Jean de la Bruyere
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• "If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; . . . . Yours is the Earth and every thing that's in it, And--which is more--you'll be a man, my son!"
  By: Rudyard Kipling, If, first and last lines
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