Thomas Campbell - Man Quotes

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Lochiel, Lochiel, beware of the day!
For, dark and despairing, my sight I may seal,
But man cannot cover what God would reveal:
'Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore,
And coming events cast their shadows before.

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Truth ever lovely - since the world began, The foe of tyrants, and the friend of man.

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A stoic of the woods — a man without a tear.

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How glorious is thy girdle cast
O'er mountain, tower, and town,
Or mirror'd in the ocean vast,
A thousand fathoms down! As fresh in yon horizon dark,
As young thy beauties seem,
As when the eagle from the ark
First sported in thy beam. For, faithful to its sacred page,
Heaven still rebuilds thy span,
Nor lets the type grow pale with age
That first spoke peace to man.

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What potent spirit guides the raptur'd eye
To pierce the shades of dim futurity?
Can Wisdom lend, with all her heav'nly pow'r,
The pledge of Joy's anticipated hour? Ah, no! she darkly sees the fate of man—
Her dim horizon bounded to a span;
Or, if she hold an image to the view,
Tis nature pictur'd too severely true.

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Thus, while Elijah's burning wheels prepare,
From Carmel's height, to sweep the fields of air,
The prophet's mantle, ere his flight began,
Dropt on the world — a sacred gift to man.

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Without the smile from partial beauty won,
Oh what were man? — a world without a sun.

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The world was sad, the garden was a wild,
And man the hermit sigh'd — till woman smiled.

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But sad as angels for the good man's sin,
Weep to record, and blush to give it in.

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Who hail thee, Man! the pilgrim of the day, spouse of the worm, and brother of the clay.

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A man who will not leave his room because he does not know how, or is afraid to open the door, is trapped just the same whether or not the door is locked.

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