Man Quotes

• "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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• "Though I've belted you and flayed you, By the livin' Gawd that made you, You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din."
  By: Rudyard Kipling, Gunga Din
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• "It is a painful fact, but there is no denying it, the masts are the tools of circumstances; thistle-down on the breeze, straw on the river, their course is shaped for them by the currents and eddies of the stream of life; but only in proportion as they are things, not men and women. Man was meant to be not the slave, but the master, of circumstances, and in proportion as he recovers his humanity, in every sense of the great obsolete word,--in proportion as he gets back the spirit of manliness, which is self-sacrifice, affection, loyalty to an idea beyond himself, a God above himself, so far will he rise above circumstances, and wield them at his will."
  By: Charles Kingsley
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• "T'is but a Tent where takes his one day's rest A Sultan to the realm of Death addrest. A Sultan rises, and the dark Ferrash Strikes, and prepares it for another Guest."
  By: Omar Khayyam ("The Tent-Maker"), The Rubaiyat (st. 45), (FitzGerald's translation)
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• "Where soil is, men grow, Whether to weeds or flowers."
  By: John Keats (1), Endymion (bk. II)
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• "The history of mankind is little else than a narrative of designs which have failed, and hopes that have been disappointed."
  By: Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature")
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• "Man, biologically considered, and whatever else he may be in the bargain, is simply the most formidable of all the beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own species."
  By: William James
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• "God's creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself, indeed, in every finite form, but compromised by none."
  By: Henry James, Jr.
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• "Man passes away; his names perishes from record and recollection; his history is as a tale that is told, and his very monument becomes a ruin."
  By: Washington Irving, The Sketch Book--Westminster Abbey
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• "Man dwells apart, though not alone, He walks among his peers unread; The best of thoughts which he hath known For lack of listeners are not said."
  By: Jean Ingelow, Afternoon at a Parsonage--Afterthought
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• "Art may make a suit of clothes; but nature must produce a man."
  By: David Hume
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• "The finest fruit earth holds up to its Maker is a finished man."
  By: Wilhelm von Humboldt
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• "Creation lives, grows, and multiplies; man is but a witness."
  By: Victor Hugo
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• "A man polished to the nail. [Lat., Ad unguem factus home.]"
  By: Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Satires (I, 5, 32)
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• "Every man should measure himself by his own standard. [Lat., Metiri se quemque suo modulo ac pede verum est.]"
  By: Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Epistles (I, 7, 98)
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• "We are dust and shadow. [Lat., Pulvis et umbra sumus.]"
  By: Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Carmina (bk. IV, 7, l. 16)
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