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Aye, think! since time and life began, Your mind has only feared and slept; Of all the beasts they called you man Only because you toiled and wept.
- quote by Arturo Giovannitti
Before man made us citizens, great Nature made us men.
- quote by James Russell Lowell
Beloved brother, let us not forget that man can never get away from himself.
- quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- quote by John Ruskin
But in our Sanazarro 'tis not so, He being pure and tried gold; and any stamp Of grace, to make him current to the world, The duke is pleased to give him, will add honour To the great bestower; for he, though allow'd Companion to his master, still preserves His majesty in full lustre.
- quote by Philip Massinger
But man is above all a social and political animal; his relations with his fellow human beings form his most absorbing and important interest.
- quote by Logan Pearsall Smith
But strive still to be a man before your mother.
- quote by William Cowper
But we, who name ourselves its sovereigns, we, Half dust, half deity, alike unfit To sink or soar.
- quote by Lord Byron
Chaos of thought and passion, all confused; Still by himself abused and disabused; Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled; The glory, jest and riddle of the world!
- quote by Alexander Pope
Every man should measure himself by his own standard.
- quote by Horace