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Men Quotes by Philip James Bailey
- Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.
- Art is a man's nature; nature is God's art.
- The hero is the world-man, in whose heart One passion stands for all, the most indulged.
- Let each man think himself an act of God, His mind a thought, his life a breath of God; And let each try, by great…
- What men call accident is God's own part.
- The worst men often give the best advice. Our deeds are sometimes better than our thoughts.
- The beautiful are never desolate; But some one alway loves them--God or man. If man abandons, God himself takes them.
- Men might be better if we better deemed of them.
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