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Men are men before they are lawyers, or physicians, or merchants, or manufacturers; and if you make them capable and read more
Men are men before they are lawyers, or physicians, or merchants, or manufacturers; and if you make them capable and sensible men, they will make themselves capable and sensible lawyers or physicians.
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.
The true worth of a man is not to be found in man himself, but in the colours and textures read more
The true worth of a man is not to be found in man himself, but in the colours and textures that come alive in others.
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.]
Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.
Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the read more
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be.
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.
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.
The awareness that we are all human beings together has become lost in war and through politics.
The awareness that we are all human beings together has become lost in war and through politics.
