Man Quotes

• "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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• "Man has wants deeper than can be supplied by wealth or nature or domestic affections. His great relations are to his God and to eternity."
  By: Mark Hopkins
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• "The fool of fate, thy manufacture, man."
  By: Homer ("Smyrns of Chios"), The Odyssey (bk. XX, l. 254), (Pope's translation)
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• "Forget the brother and resume the man."
  By: Homer ("Smyrns of Chios"), The Odyssey (bk. IV, l. 732), (Pope's translation)
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• "Like leaves on trees the race of man is found,-- Now green in youth, now withering on the ground; Another race the following spring supplies; They fall successive; and successive rise."
  By: Homer ("Smyrns of Chios"), The Iliad (bk. VI, l. 181), (Pope's translation)
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• "Let us not undervalue the dignity of human nature. Man although fallen, still retains some traces of his primeval glory and excellence--broken columns of a celestial temple, magnificent, even in its ruins."
  By: John McClellan Holmes
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• "God give us men. A time like this demands Strong minds, great hearts, true faith and ready hands! Men whom the lust of office does not kill, Men whom the spoils of office cannot buy, Men who possess opinions and a will, Men who love honor, men who cannot lie."
  By: Josiah Gilbert Holland (used pseudonym Timothy Titcomb), Wanted
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• "It is better to be a self-made man,--filled up according to God's original pattern,--than to be half a man, made after some other man's pattern."
  By: Josiah Gilbert Holland (used pseudonym Timothy Titcomb)
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• "Every man's powers have relation to some kind of work; and whenever he finds that kind of work which he can do best--that to which his powers are best adapted--he finds that which will give him the best development, and that by which he can best build up, or make, his manhood."
  By: Josiah Gilbert Holland (used pseudonym Timothy Titcomb)
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• "'Tis man's pride, His highest, worthiest, noblest boast, The privilege he prizes most, To stand by helpless woman's side."
  By: Margaret Holford (a/k/a Margaret Hodson)
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• "The more intense man's awareness of his greatness and misery, the nearer he is to becoming either saint, poet, or anarchist."
  By: James Hogan
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• "Man is a central creature between the animals, that is to say, the most perfect form, which unites the traits of all in the most complete epitome."
  By: Johann Gottfried von Herder
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• "Man is one world, and hath Another to attend him."
  By: George Herbert, Temple--The Church Man
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• "Man is all symmetrie, Full of proportions, one limbe to another, And all to all the world besides: Each part may call the farthest, brother: For head with foot hath privite amitie, And both with moons and tides."
  By: George Herbert, Temple--The Church Man
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• "Man is on earth as in an egg."
  By: Heraclitus of Ephesus
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• "Man,--the aristocrat amongst the animals."
  By: Heinrich Heine
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