--HENRY GILES.
How poor, how rich, how abject, how august,
How complicate, how wonderful, is man!
--YOUNG.
He is the whole encyclopaedia of facts. The creation of a thousand
forests is in one acorn; and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain,
America, lie folded already in the first man.--EMERSON.
Man is an animal that cooks his victuals.--BURKE.
Man is an animal that makes bargains; no other animal does this,--one
dog does not change a bone with another.--ADAM SMITH.
Know then thyself, presume not God to scan;
The proper study of mankind is man.
--POPE.
His life was gentle; and the elements
So mix'd in him, that nature might stand up
And say to all the world, "This was a man!"
--SHAKESPEARE.
Man that is born of woman is of few days, and full of trouble.
--JOB 14:1.
Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is
one rascal less in the world.--CARLYLE.
An individual man is a fruit which it cost all the foregoing ages to
form and ripen. He is strong, not to do, but to live; not in his arms,
but in his heart; not as an agent, but as a fact.--EMERSON.
What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! how infinite in
faculties! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action,
how like an angel! in apprehension, how like a god!--SHAKESPEARE.
There are but three classes of men, the retrograde, the stationary,
and the progressive.
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