Quotes
Quotes about Man
A sweeter woman ne'er drew breath
Than my sonne's wife, Elizabeth.
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.
Let no guilty man escape, if it can be avoided. No personal considerations should stand in the way of performing a public duty.
To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost
Which blamed the living man.
Calm Soul of all things! make it mine
To feel, amid the city's jar,
That there abides a place of thine,
Man did not make, and can not mar.
The same heart beats in every human breast.
Nearer my Father's house,
Where the many mansions be,
Nearer the great white throne,
Nearer the crystal sea.
Nearer the bound of life,
Where we lay our burdens down,
Nearer leaving the cross,
Nearer gaining the crown.
Every great crisis of human history is a pass of Thermopylae, and there is always a Leonidas and his three hundred to die in it, if they can not conquer.
Hans Breitmann gife a barty--
Where ish dat barty now?
The brave deserve the lovely--every woman may be won.
The man that feareth, Lord, to doubt,
In that fear doubteth thee.
If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is a man who has so much as to be out of danger?
'T is but a little faded flower,
But oh, how fondly dear!
'T will bring me back one golden hour,
Through many a weary year.
Darius was clearly of the opinion
That the air is also man's dominion,
And that, with paddle or fin or pinion,
We soon or late
Shall navigate
The azure, as now we sail the sea.
Of nothing comes nothing: springs rise not above
Their source in the far-hidden heart of the mountains:
Whence then have descended the Wisdom and Love
That in man leap to light in intelligent fountains?
If you will observe, it does n't take
A man of giant mould to make
A giant shadow on the wall;
And he who in our daily sight
Seems but a figure mean and small,
Outlined in Fame's illusive light,
May stalk, a silhouette sublime,
Across the canvas of his time.
Man's life is but a jest,
A dream, a shadow, bubble, air, a vapor at the best.
The time shall come
When man to man shall be a friend and brother.
All wisdom's armory this man could wield.
How many a thing which we cast to the ground,
When others pick it up, becomes a gem!
But O the truth, the truth! the many eyes
That look on it! the diverse things they see!
God's rarest blessing is, after all, a good woman.
A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.
The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature--a type nowhere at present existing.
If a single cell, under appropriate conditions, becomes a man in the space of a few years, there can surely be no difficulty in understanding how, under appropriate conditions, a cell may, in the course of untold millions of years, give origin to the human race.
