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The brave man is not he who feels no fear,
For that were stupid and irrational;

But he, whose noble soul its fear subdues,
And bravely dares the danger nature shrinks from.
—Joanna Baillie. Basil, Act III., Sc. I.

Man is forever the same; the same under every form, in all situations and relations that admit of free and unrestrained exertion. The same regard which you have for yourself you have for others, for nature, for the invisible Numen, which you call God. Who has witnessed one free and unconstrained act of yours has witnessed all.

-Lavater.

Man should be ever better than he seems; and shape his acts, and discipline his mind, to walk adorning earth, with hope of heaven.

-Sir Aubrey de Vere.

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.

-Shakspere. Much Ado about Nothing, (Benedick), Act II., Sc. III.

He is a man who knows how to die for his God and his country; his heart, his lips, his arms, are faithful unto death.

-Ernest Arndt.

Men, in general, are but great children.

-Napoleon.

For a man is a plant, not fixed in the earth, nor immovable, but heavenly, whose head, rising as it were from a root upwards, is turned towards heaven.

-Plutarch.

Every man has his gift, and the tools go to him that can use them.

-C. Kingsley. The Saints' Tragedy (Peasant), Act. II., Sc. VI.

Omit a few of the most abstruse sciences, and mankind's study of man occupies nearly the whole field of literature. The burden of history is what man has been; of law, what he does; of physiology, what he is; of ethics, what he ought to be; of revelation, what he shall be.

-George Finlayson.

Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, pompous in the grave.

-Sir Thomas Browne.

Now the basest thought possible concerning man is, that he has no spiritual nature; and the foolishest misunderstanding of him possible is, that he has, or should have, no animal nature. For his nature is nobly animal, nobly spiritual,coherently and irrevocably so; neither part of it may, but at its peril, expel, despise, or defy the other.

-Ruskin.

Man-living, feeling man-is the easy sport of the overmastering present. -Schiller.

A man's disposition is never well known till he be crossed.

-Bacon. Advancement of Learning, Bk. II.

A man in old age is like a sword in a shop window. Men that look upon the perfect blade do not imagine the process by which it was completed. Man is a sword, daily life is the workshop, and God is the artificer; and those cares which beat upon the anvil, and file the edge, and eat in, acid-like, the inscription upon his hilt,these are the very things that fashion the man. -Beecher.

No man's knowledge, here, can go beyond his experience. -Locke. Essay on the Human Understanding, Bk. II., Ch. I., & 19.

Man is the metre of all things, the hand is the instrument of instruments, and the mind is the form of forms.

-Aristotle.

Men are but children of a larger groweth; our appetites are apt to change as theirs, and full as craving too, and full as vain.

-Dryden.

(Through the wide world) he only is alone Who lives not for another. Come what will, The generous man has his companion still. Rogers. Human Life.

A wise man is never less alone than when he is alone.

-Swift. Essay on the Faculties of the Mind.

A proud man is always hard to be pleased, because he hath too great expectations from others. Christian Ethics.

-Richd. Baxter.

He only is a great man who can neglect the applause of the multitude, and enjoy himself independent of its favor.

-Sir R. Steele. Spectator, No. 554.

Whenever I contemplate man in the actual world, or the ideal, I am lost amidst the infinite multiformity of his life, but always end in wonder at the essential unity of his nature.

-Henry Giles.

REASON,

Reason-a god, upon the throne of Mind-
Vouchsafes attention to the lightest thought.
Admit its sway; give heed and thou shalt find
Thy ills but phantoms that will come to naught.

But, disobey the promptings he may give,
And obstacles arise at every turn;

Too short the space allotted man to live,
Unless through reason, we life's lesson learn.

Conscience, good my lord,

Is but the pulse of reason.

-J. C. H.

-Coleridge. Zapolya, Sc. I.

Reason saw not, till Faith sprung the light. -Dryden. Religio Laici, line 69.

Reason sets limits to the longest grief.

-Drayton. Moses, Bk. I.

Reason, the power

To guess at right and wrong, the twinkling lamp

Of wandering life, that winks and wakes by

turns, Fooling the follower, betwixt shade and shining. -Congreve. The Mourning Bride (Osmyn), Act III., Sc. I.

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