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Even if the whole earth and sea were turned to gold, they could hardly satisfy the avarice of a woman... read more
Even if the whole earth and sea were turned to gold, they could hardly satisfy the avarice of a woman... You can more easily scratch a diamond with your fingernail than you can by any human ingenuity get a woman to consent to giving any of her savings.
A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.
A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.
In this day and age, some turn 18 and think they're a man or a woman and that's it, but read more
In this day and age, some turn 18 and think they're a man or a woman and that's it, but that's just not true. You have to establish your manhood or your womanhood with actions.
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.
And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness:
and let them have dominion over read more
And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness:
and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the
fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and
over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
Relegating women to second-class citizenship was abolished when Jesus died on the cross.
Relegating women to second-class citizenship was abolished when Jesus died on the cross.
For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast
crowned him with glory and honour.
For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast
crowned him with glory and honour.
The rank is but the guinea's stamp,
The man's the gowd for a' that.
The rank is but the guinea's stamp,
The man's the gowd for a' that.
There is a great deal of human nature in man.
There is a great deal of human nature in man.