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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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Ye children of man! whose life is a span
Protracted with sorrow from day to day,
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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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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.

by Bible Found in: Fish Quotes, Man Quotes,
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A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him.

A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him.

by Mae West Found in: Man Quotes,
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The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man.

The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man.

by Sun Tzu Found in: Man Quotes,
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rnA man's got to do what a man's got to do. A woman must do what he can't.

rnA man's got to do what a man's got to do. A woman must do what he can't.

by Barry Hannah Found in: Man Quotes,
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If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?

If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?

by Henry David Thoreau 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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There never was such beauty in another man.
Nature made him, and then broke the mould.
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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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There is nothing enduring in life for a woman except what she builds in a man's heart

There is nothing enduring in life for a woman except what she builds in a man's heart

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