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Man Quotes by George Herbert
- Man is one world, and hath / Another to attend him.
- Lie not, neither to thyself, nor man, nor God. Let mouth and heart be one; beat and speak together, and make both felt in action.…
- There is an hour wherein a man might be happy all his life, could he find it.
- Be not too presumptuously sure in any business; for things of this world depend on such a train of unseen chances that if it were…
- A wise man cares not for what he cannot have.
- Exalted Manna, gladness of the best, Heaven in ordinary, man well drest,
- God's breath in man returning to his birth, The soul in paraphrase, heart in pilgrimage,
- Nothing wears clothes, but Man; nothing doth need But he to wear them.
- O what a sight were Man, if his attires Did alter with his minde; And like a dolphins skinne, his clothes combin'd With his desires!
- Laugh not too much; the witty man laughs least: For wit is news only to ignorance. Lesse at thine own things laugh; lest in the…
- The Sundaies of man's life, Thredded together on time's string, Make bracelets to adorn the wife Of the eternal, glorious King. On Sunday heaven's gates…
- A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.
- Hope is the poor man's bread.
- Love is swift of foot ; love's a man of war, And an hit from far
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