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Man Quotes by Alfred Lord Tennyson
- Every man, for the sake of the great blessed Mother in Heaven, and for the love of his own little mother on earth, should handle…
- Thou madest man, he knows not why, he thinks he was not made to die.
- The greater man the greater courtesy.
- Man is the hunter; women are the game; those sleek and shining creatures of the chase. We hunt them for the beauty of their skins;…
- This world was once a fluid haze of light, Till toward the centre set the starry tides, And eddied into suns, that wheeling cast The…
- How many a father have I seen, A sober man, among his boys, Whose youth was full of foolish noise.
- That man's the true Conservative who lops the moldered branch away.
- The woods decay, the woods decay and fall, The vapours weep their burthen to the ground, Man comes and tills the field and lies beneath,…
- Man's word is God in man.
- That man's the best cosmopolite Who loves his native country best.
- The woman's cause is man's: they rise or sink Together.
- In the long years liker they must grow; The man be more of woman, she of man.
- Do we indeed desire the dead Should still be near us at our side ? Is there no baseness we would hide ? No inner…
- Ring in the valiant man and free, The larger heart, the kindlier hand; Ring out the darkness of the land; Ring in the Christ that…
- The Lord let the house of a brute to the soul of a man, And the man said, "Am I your debtor?" And the Lord--"Not…
- The woman's cause is man's. They rise or sink Together. / Dwarf'd or godlike, bound or free; miserable, / How shall men grow? - Let…
- No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work…
- The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
- Let me go: take back thy gift: Why should a man desire in any way To vary from the kindly race of men, Or pass…
- I came in haste with cursing breath, And heart of hardest steel; But when I saw thee cold in death, I felt as man should…
- A man had given all other bliss, And all his worldly worth for this To waste his whole heart in one kiss Upon her perfect…
- And ah for a man to arise in me, That the man I am may cease to be!
- Man is the hunter; woman is his game. The sleek and shining creatures of the chase, we hunt them for the beauty of their skins;…
More Man Quotes
- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. — Aristotle
- Hope is the dream of a waking man. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle