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Love, hope, fear, faith--these make humanity;
These are its sign and note and character.
Author: Robert Browning
Source: Paracelsus (sc. 3)
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An inadvertent step may crush the snail
That crawls at evening in the public path.
But he that has humanity, forewarned,
Will turn aside and let the reptile live.
Author: William Cowper
Source: Task (bk. VI)
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W'en you see a man in woe,
Walk right up and say "hullo."
Say "hullo" and "how d'ye do,"
"How's the world a-usin' you?"
. . . .
W'en you travel through the strange
Country t'other side the range,
Then the souls you've cheered will know
Who you be, an' say "hullo."
Author: Sam Walter Foss
Source: Hullo
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He held his seat; a friend to human race.
Author: Homer ("Smyrns of Chios")
Source: The Iliad (bk. VI, l. 18), (Pope's translation)
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Respect us, human, and relieve us, poor.
Author: Homer ("Smyrns of Chios")
Source: The Odyssey (bk. IX, l. 338), (Pope's translation)
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Over the brink of it
Picture it--think of it,
Dissolute man.
Lave in it--drink of it
Then, if you can.
Author: Thomas Hood
Source: Bridge of Sighs
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Oh, God! that bread should be so dear,
And flesh and blood so cheap!
Author: Thomas Hood
Source: Song of the Shirt
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For He, who gave this vast machine to roll,
Breathed Life in then, in us a Reasoning Soul;
That kindred feelings might our state improve,
And mutual wants conduct to mutual love.
Author: Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal)
Source: Satire XV (l. 203)
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Every human heart is human.
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Source: Hiawatha (introduction, l. 91)
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Laborin' man an' laborin' woman
Hev one glory an' one shame;
Ev'ything thet's done inhuman
Injers all on 'em the same.
Author: James Russell Lowell
Source: The Biglow Papers (first series, no. 1, st. 10)
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It is good to be often reminded of the inconsistency of human
nature, and to learn to look without wonder or disgust on the
weaknesses which are found in the strongest minds.
Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay
Source: Warren Hastings
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For nothing human foreign was to him.
Author: James Thomson (1)
Source: To the Memory of Lord Talbot, translation of "Humani nihil a me alienum puto"
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For the interesting and inspiring thing about America, gentlemen,
is that she asks nothing for herself except what she has a right
to ask for humanity itself.
Author: Thomas Woodrow Wilson
Source: in a speech at the luncheon of the Mayor of New York
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Never to blend our pleasure or our pride
With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels.
Author: William Wordsworth
Source: Hart-Leap Well (pt. II)
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But hearing oftentimes
The still, sad music of humanity.
Author: William Wordsworth
Source: Tintern Abbey
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Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
Author: Douglas Adams
Source: None
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People can be divided into two classes: those who go ahead and do something, and those who sit still and inquire, why wasn't it done the other way?
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
Source: None
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It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.
Author: Henry Allen
Source: None
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We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey.
Author: Stephen R. Covey
Source: None
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My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
Author: Albert Einstein
Source: None
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Man must realize his own unimportance before he can appreciate his importance.
Author: R. M. Baumgardy
Source: None
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Which is it, is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's?
Author: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Source: None
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Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us.
Author: Francis Bacon
Source: None
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The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together.
Author: Muhammad Yunus
Source: None
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Man is an ape with possibilities.
Author: Roy Chapman Andrews
Source: None
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There are 193 living species of monkeys and apes. 192 of them are covered with hair. The exception is a naked ape, self-named Homo Sapiens.
Author: Desmond Morris
Source: None
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Man must realize his own unimportance before he can appreciate his importance.
Author: R. M. Baumgardy
Source: None
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We are all just monkeys in business suits running around pretending to be executives.
Author: Anon.
Source: None
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Humans can learn to like anything, that's why we are such a successful species. You can drop humans anywhere and they'll thrive--only the rat does as well.
Author: Jeanette Desor
Source: None
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Man's most valuable trait Is a judicious sense of what not to believe.
Author: Euripides
Source: None
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A humanist is anyone who rejects the attempt to describe or account for man wholly on the basis of physics, chemistry or animal behaviour.
Author: Joseph R. Krutch
Source: None
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There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.
Author: Walter S. Landor
Source: None
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The natural man has only two primal passions: to get and beget.
Author: William Osler
Source: None
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Humanity is the sin of God.
Author: Theodore Parker
Source: None
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man is only a reed, the weakest thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.
Author: Blaise Pascal
Source: None
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Man is as full of potentiality as he is of impotence.
Author: George Santayana
Source: None
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There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.
Author: Mark Twain
Source: None
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Humanity to me is not a mob. A mob is a degeneration of humanity. A mob is humanity going the wrong way.
Author: Frank Lloyd Wright
Source: None
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Give a small boy a hammer and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding.
Author: Kalan
Source: None
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I am mortal. I am born to love and to suffer.
Author: Friedrich Holderlin
Source: None
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I am a man; nothing human is alien to me.
Author: Terence
Source: None
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If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on the headstone might well be: "It seemed a good idea at the time.".
Author: Rebecca West
Source: None
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Humanism, it seems, is almost impossible in America where material progress is part of the national romance whereas in Europe such progress is relished because it feels nice.
Author: Paul West
Source: None
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He had the uneasy manner of a man who is not among his own kind, and who has not seen enought of the world to feel that all people are in some sense his own kind.
Author: Willa Cather
Source: None
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It is more comfortable to feel that we are a slight improvement on a monkey than such a fallin' off from the angels.
Author: Finley Peter Dunne
Source: None
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The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all o its meaninglessness.
Author: Martin Esslin
Source: None
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Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck by the difference between what things are and what they might have been.
Author: William Hazlitt
Source: None
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Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires. Man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.
Author: Alphonse De Lamartine
Source: None
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Man makes holy what he beleives, as he makes beautiful what he loves.
Author: Ernest Renan
Source: None
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Man, an animal that makes bargains.
Author: Adam Smith
Source: None
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