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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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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.

by Henry David Thoreau Found in: Man Quotes,
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The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

by Friedrich Nietzsche Found in: Man Quotes,
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A man is related to all nature.

A man is related to all nature.

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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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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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For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.

For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.

by Lao Tzu Found in: Man Quotes,
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A prince can mak a belted knight,
A marquis, duke, and a' that;
But an honest man's read more

A prince can mak a belted knight,
A marquis, duke, and a' that;
But an honest man's aboon his might:
Guid faith, he maunna fa' that.

by Robert Burns Found in: Man Quotes,
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A man's only as old as the woman he feels.

A man's only as old as the woman he feels.

by Groucho Marx Found in: Man Quotes,
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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.

by Hans J. Morgenthau Found in: Man Quotes,
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