Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

Man becomes man only by the intelligence, but he is man only by the heart. Amiel.

Man, behind his everlasting blind, which he 50 only colours differently, and makes no thinner, carries his pride with him from one step to another, and on the higher step blames only the pride of the lower. Jean Paul.

Man can dispense with much but not with men. Börne.

Man can elect the universal man, / And live in life that ends not with his breath. R. W. Dixon.

Man can invent nothing nobler than humanity. Ruskin.

Man can only learn to rise from the consideration of that which he cannot surmount. Jean Paul.

Man cannot be a naturalist, until he satisfies all the demands of the spirit. Emerson.

Man cannot choose his duties. George Eliot.

Man cannot live without his formulas. Dr. Walter Smith.

Man carries under his hat a private theatre, 5 wherein a greater drama is acted than ever on the mimic stage, beginning and ending in eternity. Carlyle.