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Without our hopes, without our fears,
Without the home that plighted love endears,
Without the smile from partial beauty won,
Oh! what were man?—a world without a sun.
a. CAMPBELL-Pleasures of Hope.
Pt. II. Line 24.

Manhood begins when we have in any way made truce with Necessity; begins even when we have surrendered to Necessity, as the most part only do; but begins joyfully and hopefully only when we have reconciled ourselves to necessity; and thus, in reality triumphed over it, and felt that in Necessity we are free.

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Mur. We are men, my liege.
Mac.-Ay, in the catalogue ye go for men.
d. Macbeth. Act III. Sc. 1.

What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! how infinite in faculty, in form, and moving, how express and admirable! in action, how like an angel! in apprehension, how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? man delights not me, no nor women neither, though by your smiling, you seem to say so.

e. Hamlet. Act II. Sc. 2.

What is a man

If his chief good, and market of his time, Be but to sleep and feed?

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Hamlet. Act IV. Sc. 4.

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Man is of soul and body, formed for deeds
Of high resolve, on fancy's boldest wing.
h. SHELLEY Queen Mab. Canto IV.
Line 160.

Man that flowers so fresh at morn, and fades at evening late.

i. SPENSER--Faerie Queene. Bk. III. Canto IX. When I beheld this I sighed, and said within myself: Surely mortal man is a broomstick!

SWIFT-A Meditation upon a Broom-
stick, According to the style of Hon.
Robt. Boyle's Meditations.

And ah for a man to rise in me,
That the man I am may cease to be.

k. TENNYSON--Maud. Pt. X. St. 6. Man is man, and master of his fate. TENNYSON--Enid. Song of Fortune and Her Wheel.

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Ah! how unjust to nature, and himself, Is thoughtless, thankless, inconsistent man. q. YOUNG-Night Thoughts. Night II.

Line 112.

Fond man! the vision of a moment made! Dream of a dream! and shadow of a shade!

r. YOUNG-Paraphrase of Job. Line 187. How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man! How passing wonder He, who made him such!

S.

YOUNG--Night Thoughts. Night I.

Line 68.

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Christians have burned each other, quite persuaded

That all the Apostles would have done as they did.

y. BYRON-Don Juan. Canto I. St. 83. Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star. 2. BEN JONSON-Underwoods. An Epistle to Master John Selden.

He strove among God's suffering poor
One gleam of brotherhood to send;
The dungeon oped its hungry door
To give truth one martyr more,
Then shut, and here behold the end!
LOWELL-On the Death of C. T. Torrey.

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