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Man Quotes by Alexander Pope
- Say first, of god above or man below; what can we reason but from what we know.
- A brave man thinks no one his superior who does him an injury, for he has it then in his power to make himself superior…
- Where's the man who counsel can bestow, still pleased to teach, and yet not proud to know.
- Virtuous and vicious every man must be, few in the extreme, but all in the degree.
- Cursed be the verse, how well so e'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe.
- Whenever I find a great deal of gratitude in a poor man, I take it for granted there would be as much generosity if he…
- If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly…
- A brave man struggling in the storms of fate, And greatly falling with a falling state.
- Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise; Laugh where we must, be candid where we can,…
- Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things To low ambition and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than…
- No, make me mistress to the man I love; If there be yet another name more free More fond than mistress, make me that to…
- T is true,t is certain; man though dead retains, Part of himself: the immortal mind remains.
- A perfect woman's but a softer man.
- A man of business may talk of philosophy; a man who has none may practice it.
- Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.
- The lot of man - to suffer and to die.
- No Senses stronger than his brain can bear. Why has not Man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, Man is not a Fly: What…
- [T]hroÂ’ this Air, this Ocean, and this Earth, All Nature quick, and bursting into birth. Above, how high progressive life may go? Around how wide?…
- I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
- A good-natured man has the whole world to be happy out of.
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- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- A man can die but once. — William Shakespeare
- Government has come to be a trade, and is managed solely on commercial principles. A man plunges into politics to make his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. — Aristotle