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Man only,--rash, refined, presumptuous Man-- Starts from his rank, and mars Creation's plan! Born the free heir of nature's wide domain, To art's strict limits bounds his narrow'd reign; Resigns his native rights for meaner things, For Faith and Fetters, Laws and Priests and Kings.

The man forget not, though in rags he lies, And know the mortal through a crown's disguise.

There never was such beauty in another man. Nature made him, and then broke the mould.

Ye children of man! whose life is a span Protracted with sorrow from day to day, Naked and featherless, feeble and querulous, Sickly, calamitous creatures of clay.

Let each man think himself an act of God. His mind a thought, his life a breath of God.

Man is the nobler growth our realms supply And souls are ripened in our northern sky.

Thou wilt scarce be a man before thy mother.

And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.

The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven.

Be strong, and quit yourselves like men, O ye Philistines, that ye be not servants unto the Hebrews, as they have been to you: quit yourselves like men, and fight.

But now thy kingdom shall not continue: the Lord hath sought him a man after his own heart, and the Lord hath commanded him to be captain over his people, because thou hast not kept that which the Lord commanded thee.

And Nathan said to David, Thou art the Man.

Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?

Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.

For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.

Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace.

All sorts and conditions of men.

Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes and pompous in the grave.

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?