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Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
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.
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.
Where the virgins are soft as the roses they twine,
And all, save the spirit of man, is divine?
Where the virgins are soft as the roses they twine,
And all, save the spirit of man, is divine?
Man only,--rash, refined, presumptuous Man--
Starts from his rank, and mars Creation's plan!
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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.
A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.
A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.
Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.
Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.
