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Men Quotes by John Masefield
- God warms his hands at man's heart when he prays.
- Most roads lead men homewards, My road leads me forth
- Man's body is faulty, his mind untrustworthy, but his imagination has made him remarkable.
- Once in a century a man may be ruined or made insufferable by praise. But surely once in a minute something generous dies for want…
- Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement…
- Success is the brand on the brow of the man who aimed too low.
- Man with his burning soul Has but an hour of breath To build a ship of Truth In which his soul may sail- Sail on…
- O lovely lily clean, O lily springing green, O lily bursting white, Dear lily of delight, Spring in my heart agen That I may flower…
- The corn that makes the holy bread By which the soul of man is fed, The holy bread, the food unpriced, Thy everlasting mercy, Christ.
- Men in a ship are always looking up, and men ashore are usually looking down.
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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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- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
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