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Man Quotes
Short lines on character, patience and what it means to be a man.
This is a smaller, general collection of quotes touching on manhood, character and patience. One well-known line uses golf as an example, a test of temperament disguised as a leisure game, to make a wider point about what reveals a man's spirit. For steadier, values-driven lines, see our Good quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- God
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He must pull out his own eyes, and see no creature, before he can say, he sees no God; He must be no man, and quench his reasonable soul, before he can say to himself, there is no God.
- Book
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When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
For while the subjects of poetry are few and recurrent, the moods of man are infinitely various and unstable. It is the same in all arts.
- Greatness
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- Nov 07, 2020
Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
Youth, what man's age is like to be, doth show; We may our ends by our beginnings know.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learned to separate them.
- Flower
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
No man's credit is as good as his money.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.
- Intellectual
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- Nov 07, 2020