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Man,--whose heaven-erected face
The smiles of love adorn,--
Man's inhumanity to man
Makes countless read more
Man,--whose heaven-erected face
The smiles of love adorn,--
Man's inhumanity to man
Makes countless thousands mourn!
The world has been made by fools that men should live in it
The world has been made by fools that men should live in it
A great man is the man who does something for the first time.
A great man is the man who does something for the first time.
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp,
Or what's a heaven for?
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp,
Or what's a heaven for?
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?
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.
A man's only as old as the woman he feels.
A man's only as old as the woman he feels.
Man only,--rash, refined, presumptuous Man--
Starts from his rank, and mars Creation's plan!
Born the free heir read more
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.
Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of
that man is peace.
Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of
that man is peace.