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1

This is the porcelain clay of humankind.

DrydenDon Sebastian. Act I. Sc. 1.
(See also Byron)


2

How dull, and how insensible a beast
Is man, who yet would lord it o'er the rest.

DrydenEssay on Satire. I. 1. Written by Dryden and the Earl of Mulgrave.


3

There is no Theam more plentiful to scan,
Then is the glorious goodly Frame of Man.

Du BartasDivine Weekes and Workes. First Week, Sixth Day. L. 421.
(See also Pope)


4

Men's men: gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness.

George Eliot—Daniel Deronda. Bk. IV. Ch. XXXI.


5

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man.

EmersonEssays. History.


6

Man is his own star, and the soul that can
Render an honest and a perfect man,
Commands all light.
John Fletcher—Upon an Honest Man's Fortune. L. 33.


7

Man is a tool making animal.
Franklin.


8

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.
Artltro Giovanni™—The Thinker. (On
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 | num = 9
 | text = <poem>Stood I, O Nature! man alone in thee,
Then were it worth one's while a man to be.
Goethe—Faust.


10

Die Menschen furchtet nur, wer sie nicht kennt
Und wer sie meidet, wird sie bald verkennen.
He only fears men who does not know them,
and he who avoids them will soon misjudge
them.
Goethe—Torquato Tasso. I. 2. 72.


Lass uns, geliebter Bruder, nicht vergessen,
Dass von sich selbst der Mensch nicht scheiden
kann.
Beloved brother, let us not forget that man
can never get away from himself.
Goethe—Torquato Tasso. I. 2. 85.
Lords of humankind.
 | author = Goldsmith
 | work = The Traveller.
L. 327.
A king may spille, a king may save;
A king may make of lorde a knave;
And of a knave a lorde also.
Gower—Confessio Amantis. Bk. VII.
1,895.
 | seealso = (See also Wtcherlet)
We are coming we, the young men,
Strong of heart and millions strong;
We shall work where you have trifled,
Cleanse the temple, right the wrong,
Till the land our fathers visioned
Shall be spread before our ken,
We are through with politicians;
Give us Men! Give us Men!
Arthur Gutterman—Challenge of the Young
Men. In Life, Nov. 2, 1911.
 


{{Hoyt quote
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 | text = <poem>What though the spicy breezes
Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle;
Though every prospect pleases,
And only man is vile.
Reginald Heber—Missionary Hymn.
("Java" in one version.)
 | seealso = (See also {{sc|Byron)
la Man is all symmetrie,
Full of proportions, one limbe to another,
And all to all the world besides:
Each part may call the farthest, brother:
For head with foot hath privite amitie,
And both with moons and tides.
 | author = Herbert
 | work = Temple. The Church Man.
 Man is one world, and hath
Another to attend him.
 | author = Herbert
 | work = Temple. The Church Man.


God give us men. A time like this demands
Strong minds, great hearts, true faith and ready
hands!
Men whom the lust of office does not kill,
Men whom the spoils of office cannot buy,
Men who possess opinions and a will,
Men who love honor, men who cannot he.
J. G. Holland—Wanted.
 | seealso = (See also Guiterman, Marston, Pbledrus, Stedman, Tennyson, also Foss under America)
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 | text = <poem>Like leaves on trees the race of man is found,—
Now green in youth, now withering on the
ground;
Another race the following spring supplies;
They fall successive; and successive rise.
Homer—Iliad. Bk. VI. L. 181
 | note = Pope's trans.


Forget the brother and resume the man.
Homer—Odyssey. Bk. IV. L. 732
 | note = Pope's trans.


The fool of fate, thy manufacture, man.
Homer—Odyssey. Bk. XX. L. 254
 | note = Pope's trans.


Pulvis et umbra sumus.
We are dust and shadow.
Horace—Carmina. Bk. IV. 7. L. 16.


{{Hoyt quote

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| text = <poem>Metiri se quemque suo modulo ac pede verum 

est. Every man should measure himself by" his own standard. Horace—Epistles. I. 7. 98.

| seealso = (See also {{sc|Jameson)