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Men Quotes by James Russell Lowell
- Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is.
- It is the rooted instinct in men to admire what is better and more beautiful than themselves.
- All thoughtful men are solitary and original in themselves.
- And I honor the man who is willing to sink half his present repute for the freedom to think, and, when he has thought, be…
- Then to side with Truth is noble when we share her wretched crust, Ere her cause bring fame and profit, and 't is prosperous to…
- Great truths are portions of the soul of man; Great souls are portions of eternity.
- I willingly confess to so great a partiality for trees as tempts me to respect a man in exact proportion to his respect for them.
- Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he…
- Be NOBLE! and the nobleness that liesIn other men, sleeping, but never dead,Will rise in majesty to meet thine own.
- To me it seems not unreasonable to find a re-enforcement of optimism, a renewal of courage and hope, in the modern theory that man has…
- It is only by instigation of the wrongs of men that what we call the rights of men become turbulent and dangerous.
- No man is born into the world whose work is not born with him. There is always work, and tools to work with, for those…
- The wisest man could ask no more of fate Than to be simple, modest, manly, true, Safe from the many, honored by the few; Nothing…
- The better part of every man's education is that which he gives himself.
- The soil out of which such men as he are made is good to be born on, good to live on, good to die for…
- Before Man made us citizens, great Nature made us men.
- Here was a type of the true elder race, And one of Plutarch's men talked with us face to face.
- Most men make the voyage of life as if they carried sealed orders which they were not to open till they were fairly in mid-ocean.
- Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan, Repeating us by rote.
- No man is born into the world whose work Is not born with him. There is always work, And tools to work withal, for those…
- Laborin' man an' laborin' woman Hev one glory an' one shame; Ev'y thin' thet' s done inhuman Injers all on 'em the same.
- Certainly it is no shame to a man that he should be as nice about his country as his sweetheart, yet it would not be…
- For men in earnest have no time to waste In patching fig-leaves for the naked truth.
- Did man e'er live Saw priest or woman yet forgive?
- What men call luck Is the prerogative of valiant souls, The fealty life pays its rightful kings.
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- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
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