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MALICIOUSNESS,

Publish not men's secret faults, for by disgracing them you make yourself of no repute.

3445 Saadi: The Gulistan. Ch. 8. Rules for Conduct in Life. No. 39.

MALIGNITY.

The venom that chills and curdles the warm current of life in man is secreted only in creeping and cold-blooded creatures; and the inveterate malignity that never forgets or forgives is found only in base and ignoble natures, whose aims are selfish, whose means are indirect, cowardly, and treacherous. George S. Hillard: Life and Campaigns of George B. McClellan. Ch. 13.

3446

MAN-see Character, Chivalry, Decay, Love, Manhood, Manliness, Secrecy, Self-Esteem, Self-Restraint, Virtue, Woman, Work.

Man is nothing but contradiction: the less he knows it the more dupe he is.

3447 Amiel Journal, May 3, 1860. (Mrs. Humphrey Ward, Translator.)

God's men are better than the devil's men, and they ought to act as though they thought they were.

3448

Henry Ward Beecher: Proverbs from Plymouth
Pulpit.

God never made anything else so beautiful as man.
3449 Henry Ward Beecher: Proverbs from Plymouth
Pulpit.

Man is that name of power which rises above them all, and gives to every one the right to be that which God meant he should be.

3450

Henry Ward Beecher: Life Thoughts. Religion would frame a just man; Christ would make a whole man. Religion would save a man; Christ would make him worth saving.

3451 Henry Ward Beecher: Proverbs from Plymouth

Pulpit.

Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes and pompous in the grave. 3452

Sir Thomas Browne: Urn Burial. Ch. 5. In one completed man there are the forces of many men. Self-control is self-completion.

3453

Bulwer-Lytton: Caxtoniana. Essay xx. Оп
Self-Control.

There never was a bad man that had ability for good service. 3454 Burke: Speech, Feb. 17, 1788. Impeachment of Warren Hastings. Fifth Day.

The way of the superior man is threefold, but I am not equal to it. Virtuous, he is free from anxieties; wise, he is free from perplexities; bold, he is free from fear.

3455

Confucius: Analects. Bk. xiv. Ch. 30. (Legge,
Translator.)

He was what a man should be to woman ever; gentle, and yet a guide.

3456 Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield): Sybil. Bk. v. Ch. 4. Man is neither the vile nor the excellent being which he sometimes imagines himself to be.

3457

Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield): Vivian Grey.
Bk. iii. Ch. 8.

A man is the whole encyclopædia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first

man.

3458

Emerson Essays. History.

Every man is not so much a workman in the world, as he is a suggestion of that he should be. Men walk as prophecies of the next age.

3459

Emerson Essays. Circles.

Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain, therefore, to treat them as if they were equal.

3460

Froude: Short Studies on Great Subjects.
Party Politics.

Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
3461
Man, the aristocrat amongst the animals.
3462

Hawthorne: American Note-Books, 1842.

Heine: Wit, Wisdom, and Pathos. Travel-
Pictures. Italy.

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It is better to be a self-made man, - filled up according to God's original pattern, than to be half a man, made after some other man's pattern.

3463 J. G. Holland: Plain Talks on Familiar Subjects. I. Self-Help.

It is not a question how much a man knows, but what use he can make of what he knows; not a question of what he has acquired, and how he has been trained, but of what he is, and what he can do.

3464

J. G. Holland: Plain Talks on Familiar Subjects.
I. Self-Help.

The world has produced but few Miltons and Newtons, but a number sufficient to show us what a noble creature man is when he consents to drink at all those fountains which have been opened for the satisfaction of his higher nature.

3465

J. G. Holland: Plain Talks on Familiar Subjects.
V. High Life and Low Life.

The true man is that which exists under what is called

man.

3466

Victor Hugo: The Toilers of the Sea.
Pt. i. Bk. iii. Ch. 1.

Art may make a suit of clothes; but nature must produce a

man.

3467 Hume: Essays. XIV. The Epicurean; or, The Man of Elegance and Pleasure.

Man is the creature of interest and imagination. His nature leads him forth into the struggle and bustle of the world. Love is but the embellishment of his early life, or a song piped in the intervals of the acts. He seeks for fame, for fortune, for space in the world's thought, and dominion over his fellow-men.

3468

Washington Irving: The Sketch-Book. The Broken
Heart.

God's creature is one. He makes MAN, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself, indeed, in every finite form, but compromised by none.

3469

Henry James: Lectures and Miscellanies.
Laws of Creation.

The

There are but three general events which happen to mankind: birth, life, and death. Of their birth they are insensible, they suffer when they die, and neglect to live.

3470 La Bruyere: Characters. Of Man. (Rowe, Trans.) Man is like a tree which is shaken that its fruit may drop to the ground: you can never move the man that the tears do not fall. 3471

Lamartine: Graziella. Pt. ii. Ch. 16.
Translator.)

(Runnion,

The hearts of men are their books, events are their tutors, great actions are their eloquence.

3472

Macaulay Essays. A Conversation between Mr.
Abraham Cowley and Mr. John Milton touching
the Great Civil War. (Knight's Quarterly
Magazine, August, 1824.)

Man, in sooth, marvellous, vain, fickle, and unstable subject. 3473 Montaigne: Essays. Bk. i. Ch. 1. (Hazlitt, Trans.) If man is not made for God, why is he happy only in God? If man is made for God, why is he opposed to God? 3474 Pascal: Thoughts. Ch. x. iv. (Wight, Translator. Louandre edition.)

Our self-made men are the glory of our institutions.

3475

Wendell Phillips: Orations, Speeches, Lectures, and Letters. Speech, Boston, Mass., Dec. 21, 1850. Mobs and Education.

Of all the things which a man has, next to the gods his soul is the most divine and most truly his own.

3476

Plato: Laws. IV. 252. (Jowett, Translator.) Man the peasant is a being of more marked national character than man the educated and refined.

3477 Ruskin: The Poetry of Architecture. The Villa. The Mountain Villa. Lago di Como.

The whole difference between a man of genius and other men, it has been said a thousand times, and most truly, is that the first remains in great part a child, seeing with the large eyes of children, in perpetual wonder, not conscious of much knowledge, — conscious, rather, of infinite ignorance, and yet infinite power; a fountain of eternal admiration, delight, and creative force within him meeting the ocean of visible and governable things about him. Ruskin: The Stones of Venice. Ch. 2, Sec. 28. A proper man as one shall see in a summer's day. 3479 Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 2.

3478

Are you good men and true?

3480

The Fall.

Shakespeare: Much Ado about Nothing.
Act iii. Sc. 3.

God made him, and therefore let him pass for a man.

3481

Shakespeare: The Merchant of Venice.
Act i. Sc 2.

My meaning in saying he is a good man is to have you understand me that he is sufficient.

3482

Shakespeare: The Merchant of Venice.
Act i. Sc. 3.

This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapors. 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! 3483

Shakespeare: Hamlet. Act ii. Sc. 2.

The most senseless and fit man.

3484

Shakespeare: Much Ado about Nothing.
Act iii. Sc. 3.

Every man as an individual is secondary to what he is as a worker for the progress of his kind and the glory of the gift allotted to him.

3485

Stedman: Poets of America. Ch. 7. Edgar
Allan Poe.

Man is a substance clad in shadows.

3486

John Sterling Essays and Tales. Thoughts.
Thoughts and Images.

When I beheld this I sighed, and said within myself, Surely mortal man is a broomstick.

3487 Swift: A Meditation upon a Broomstick, according to the Style of Hon. Robt. Boyle's Meditations.

If God ever put anything majestic and noble into a man, and gave him a fitting frame for it, he never intended that it should be hidden in a meal-bag, or permanently quenched under a smock-frock.

3488

Timothy Titcomb (J. G. Holland): Lessons in Life.
Mistakes of Penance.

MANHOOD.

The perfect manhood of the race in Christ Jesus is the errand of Christianity.

3489

Henry Ward Beecher: Proverbs from Plymouth
Pulpit.

Trouble teaches men how much there is in manhood.
3490 Henry Ward Beecher: Proverbs from Plymouth
Pulpit.

Every man's powers have relation to some kind of work; and whenever he finds that kind of work which he can do best-that to which his powers are best adapted - he finds that which will give him the best development, and that by which he can best build up, or make, his manhood. 3491 J. G. Holland: Plain Talks on Familiar Subjects. I. Self-Help.

Power, in its quality and degree, is the measure of manhood.

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3492 J. G. Holland: Plain Talks on Familiar Subjects. I. Self-Help.

MANKIND.

The history of mankind is little else than a narrative of designs which have failed, and hopes that have been disappointed.

3493 Johnson: Works. IX. 398. (Oxford edition, 1825.)

MANLINESS.

The manly part is to do with might and main what you can do.

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All true manliness grows around a core of divineness.
Charles H. Parkhurst: Sermons. II. Human
Spirit and Divine Inspiration.

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