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Man Quotes by William Cowper
- If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one...
- A noisy man is always in the right.
- Man disavows, and Deity disowns me: hell might afford my miseries a shelter; therefore hell keeps her ever-hungry mouths all bolted against me.
- A man renowned for repartee will seldom scruple to make free with friendship's finest feeling, will thrust a dagger at your breast, and say he…
- Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.
- Great offices will have great talents, and God gives to every man the virtue, temper, understanding, taste, that lifts him into life, and lets him…
- The man that hails you Tom or Jack, and proves by thumps upon your back how he esteems your merit, is such a friend, that…
- The man to solitude accustom'd long, Perceives in everything that lives a tongue; Not animals alone, but shrubs and trees Have speech for him, and…
- Man on the dubious waves of error toss'd.
- Dejection of spirits, which may have prevented many a man from becoming an author, made me one. I find constant employment necessary, and therefore take…
- I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest…
- He that negotiates between God and man, As God's ambassador, the grand concerns Of judgment and of mercy, should beware Of lightness in his speech.
- God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money, Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God…
- The man that dares traduce, because he can with safety to himself, is not a man.
- No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
- A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
- Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.
- God made the country, and man made the town.
- Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
- O, popular applause! what heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?
- The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged.
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