Quotes about Man
Unfruitful emotion is to be suspected. Feeling acts as an impulse, as a spur, as a spring, and when feelings are excited, and they put nothing forward, they are sometimes even dangerous to a man.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Religion is only another word for the right use of a man's whole self, instead of a wrong use of himself.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Adversity is the mint in which God stamps upon man his image and superscription.
— Henry Ward Beecher
It takes a man to make a devil; and the fittest man for such a purpose is a snarling, waspish, red-hot, fiery creditor.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Nothing so hardens the heart of man as a barren familiarity with sacred things.
— JC Ryle
I was a man of the earth, precisely as I had dreamed I would be.
— Jack Kerouac
It is no natural for a man to pray that no theory can prevent him from doing it.
— James Freeman Clarke
[I] never understood [what a republican government was and] I believe no other man ever did or ever will.
— John Adams
If there is a form of government, then, whose principle and foundation is virtue, will not every sober man acknowledge it better calculated to promote the general happiness than any other form?
— John Adams
That subtle knot which makes us man So must pure lovers souls descend T affections, and to faculties, Which sense may reach and apprehend, Else a great Prince in prison lies.
— John Donne
The world is a great volume, and man the index of that book; even in the body of man, you may turn to the whole world.
— John Donne
Let man's soul be a sphere, and then, in this, The intelligence that moves, devotion is.
— John Donne