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Men Quotes by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.
- And each man stands with his face in the light. Of his own drawn sword, ready to do what a hero can.
- Men get opinions as boys learn to spell by reiteration chiefly.
- A man may love a woman perfectly, and yet by no means ignorantly maintain a thousand women have not larger eyes. Enough that she alone…
- Men of science, osteologists And surgeons, beat some poets, in respect For nature,-count nought common or unclean, Spend raptures upon perfect specimens Of indurated veins,…
- We all have known good critics, who have stamped out poet's hopes; Good statesmen, who pulled ruin on the state; Good patriots, who, for a…
- For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.
- A great man leaves clean work behind him, and requires no sweeper up of the chips.
- The sweetest lives are those to duty wed, Whose deeds, both great and small Are close-knot strands of an unbroken thread There love ennobles all.…
- What frightens me is that men are content with what is not life at all.
- I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless; That only men incredulous of despair, half-taught in anguish, through the midnight air beat upward to god's throne…
- But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!
- But so fair, She takes the breath of men away Who gaze upon her unaware.
- And Marlowe, Webster, Fletcher, Ben, Whose fire-hearts sowed our furrows when The world was worthy of such men.
- The man, most man, works best for men: and, if most man indeed, he gets his manhood plainest from his soul.
- Books are men of higher stature, and the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.
- Thou large-brain'd woman and large-hearted man.
- A child's kiss Set on thy sighing lips shall make thee glad; A poor man served by thee shall make thee rich; A sick man…
- May the good God pardon all good men.
- A woman cannot do the thing she ought, which means whatever perfect thing she can, in life, in art, in science, but she fears to…
- Very whitely still The lilies of our lives may reassure Their blossoms from their roots, accessible Alone to heavenly dews that drop not fewer; Growing…
- Yet half the beast is the great god Pan, To laugh, as he sits by the river, Making a poet out of a man. The…
- Free men freely work: Whoever fears God, fears to sit at ease.
- Many a fervid man writes books as cold and flat as graveyard stones.
- All actual heroes are essential men, And all men possible heroes.
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- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
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- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
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