Man, on the dubious waves of error tost. Cowper.
Man only can create music, for nothing is perfect until, in some way, it touches or passes through man. T. T. Munger.
Man only mars kind Nature's plan, / And turns the fierce pursuit on man. Scott.
Man ought always to have something which 25 he prefers to life. Seume.
Man partly is and wholly hopes to be. Browning.
Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law and without justice. Arist.
Man proposes, God disposes. Pr.
Man, proud man, / Dress'd in a little brief authority; / Most ignorant of what he's most assur'd, / His glassy essence, like an angry ape, / Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven, / As make the angels weep. Meas. for Meas., ii. 2.
Man reconciles himself to almost every event, 30 however trying, if it happens in the ordinary course of nature. It is the extraordinary that he rebels against. W. v. Humboldt.
Man rettet gern aus trüber Gegenwart / Sich in das heitere Gebiet der Kunst, / Und für die Kränkungen der Wirklichkeit / Sucht man sich Heilung in des Dichters Träumen—We are fain to escape out of the distracted present into the untroubled sphere of art, and for the miseries of real life we seek healing in the dreams of the poet. Uhland.