Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp,
Or what's a heaven for?

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp,
Or what's a heaven for?

Man only,--rash, refined, presumptuous Man--
Starts from his rank, and mars Creation's plan!
Born the free heir read more

Man only,--rash, refined, presumptuous Man--
Starts from his rank, and mars Creation's plan!
Born the free heir of nature's wide domain,
To art's strict limits bounds his narrow'd reign;
Resigns his native rights for meaner things,
For Faith and Fetters, Laws and Priests and Kings.

The sea hath fish for every man.

The sea hath fish for every man.

Thy neck is a tower of ivory; thine eyes like the fishpools in
Heshbon, by the gate of Bathrabbim: read more

Thy neck is a tower of ivory; thine eyes like the fishpools in
Heshbon, by the gate of Bathrabbim: thy nose is as the tower
Lebanon which looketh toward Damascus.

Phone for the fish-knives, Norman
As Cook is a little unnerved;
You kiddies have crumpled the serviettes
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Phone for the fish-knives, Norman
As Cook is a little unnerved;
You kiddies have crumpled the serviettes
And I must have things daintily served.

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.

Man is a political animal by nature; he is a scientist by chance or choice; he is a moralist because read more

Man is a political animal by nature; he is a scientist by chance or choice; he is a moralist because he is a man.

There is a great deal of human nature in man.

There is a great deal of human nature in man.

Be strong, and quit yourselves like men, O ye Philistines, that
ye be not servants unto the Hebrews, as read more

Be strong, and quit yourselves like men, O ye Philistines, that
ye be not servants unto the Hebrews, as they have been to you:
quit yourselves like men, and fight.