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    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.

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The men that is now is only all palaver and what they can get out of you.

The men that is now is only all palaver and what they can get out of you.

by James Joyce Found in: Man Quotes,
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And Nathan said to David, Thou art the Man.

And Nathan said to David, Thou art the Man.

by Bible Found in: Man Quotes,
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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.

by Bible Found in: Man Quotes,
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I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of read more

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart--the best brain. The superior man ... stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others.

by Robert Green Ingersoll Found in: Man Quotes,
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What the superior man seeks is in himself. What the mean man seeks is in others.

What the superior man seeks is in himself. What the mean man seeks is in others.

by Confucius Found in: Man Quotes,
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I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the read more

I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the time he killed himself.

by Johnny Carson Found in: Man Quotes,
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Ye children of man! whose life is a span
Protracted with sorrow from day to day,
Naked read more

Ye children of man! whose life is a span
Protracted with sorrow from day to day,
Naked and featherless, feeble and querulous,
Sickly, calamitous creatures of clay.

by Aristophanes Found in: Man Quotes,
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Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.

Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.

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There never was such beauty in another man.
Nature made him, and then broke the mould.
[Fr., read more

There never was such beauty in another man.
Nature made him, and then broke the mould.
[Fr., Non e un si bello in tante altre persone,
Natura il fece, e poi roppa la stampa.]

by Ludovico Ariosto Found in: Man Quotes,
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