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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.
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.
Man is a special being, and if left to himself, in an isolated condition, would be one of the weakest read more
Man is a special being, and if left to himself, in an isolated condition, would be one of the weakest creatures; but associated with his kind, he works wonders.
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with read more
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.rn
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.
Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein
is he to be accounted of?
Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein
is he to be accounted of?
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.
All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.
All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
The measure of a man is what he does with power.