Great Men's Thoughts on Man.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4418, 2 March 1883, Page 4

Great Men's Thoughts on Man.

Man passes away ; his name perishes from record and recollection; his history is ill tale thatis told, and his very monument ' becomes a ruin.—Washington Irving. : ';* To understand man, however, we must 'look beyond the individual man, and his actions or interests, and view him in combination with his fellows.—Carlyle., , Man is his own star, and that soul that i can be honest is the only perfect man. — : >Beaumont and Fletcher. \ The scientific study of man is the most difficult of all branches of knowledge.— Oliver Wendell Holmes. The man of wisdom is the man of years. —Young.;'.: r-\ : Man/wh'oee heaten-erected face The smiles of love adorn. Man's inhumanity to man ,■; '' > Makes countless thousands morn. 1 • —Bubhb. - Stood I, O Nature! man alone in thae, Then were it worth one's while a man to be. —Soethe. ' .■, A'man is the whole encyclupwdia of facts. 'The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Some, Gaul, Britain, America lie folded already . in the first man.—Emerson. *"* Such is man! In great affliction, he is elevated by the first minute; in great happiness, the most distant, sad one, even while yet beneath the horizon, casts him down.-rJßichter. i What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason ! how infinite in faculty, in form,-land moving, how express and * admirable! in action, how like an angel! in apprehension, bow like a god! the beauty of the world! :the paragon of animals! And yet to me, what is the quintessence of dust.—Shakespeare. When faith is lost, when honor dies, Then man is dead.. - ,;-'. *; :" ,■ "' : • . r-rWHITTIKB; * Reading, inaketh a full man, conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. — Bacon. A man that is temperate, generous, valiant, chaste* faithful, and honest may, at the same time, have wit, humor, good breeding, mirth, and gallantry; while he #*e|& theselatter qualities, twenty occasions might be invented to show he is master of the other nobler virtues.— Steele. .' God, when heaven and earth-He aid create, • Formed man, wbb'should of both participate. . * —Sib J. Denham. Men are but children of a larger growth; Our appetites are iipt tochange as theirs, Andlull aa craving, too/and fall as vain. „v* A ?.-A. « « ' '— DBTDB». Consider man ; weigh well thy frame ; The King, the beggar, are the same. . 'Dust formed iis all; :Bach breathes his day, "Then sinks into his native clay. .... .. ' ;..'-^Q-ay. -'!,.- : ;.. .'* =Nobler-.birth h Of creatures animate with gradual life . m Of growth, sense, reason, all summed up in T „..;.man, . ,--r- ■.-< —Mivxov. i^Man, though individually confined to a narrow vpot of-this globe, and limited in his existeirce to: a few, courses of the sun; ha«;nevertheless' an imagination which no . despotism"' cari f atfd which unceasingly seeks' 1 for'the'author of his destiny through tEe "immensity of space and 'the ereisraLHng; current, of ages.— " Coit6n'. c; 'v J\ ::•: l ;'v. ,'.'''