“Yet tears to human suffering are due;
And mortal hopes defeated and o'erthrown
Are mourned by man, and not by man alone.”
Stanza 28.
Laodamia (1814)
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“That man who lives for self alone
Lives for the meanest mortal known.”
The Building of the City Beautiful (1905), Ch. V : How Beautiful!, p. 48.
Context: p>Each gives to each, and like the star
Gets back its gift in tenfold pay.To get and give and give amain
The rivers run and oceans roll.
O generous and high-born rain
When reigning as a splendid whole!
That man who lives for self alone
Lives for the meanest mortal known.</p
"The Wreck of the Deutschland", lines 115-118
Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)
“Man's inhumanity to man
Makes countless thousands mourn.
Man was made to Mourn.”
Man was Made to Mourn (1786)
“Hope lies to mortals
And most believe her,
But man's deceiver
Was never mine.”
No. 6, st. 1.
More Poems http://www.kalliope.org/vaerktoc.pl?vid=housman/1936 (1936)
"De Gustibus", line 586.
Men and Women (1855)
Variant: Progress, man’s distinctive mark alone,
Not God’s, and not the beasts’: God is, they are,
Man partly is and wholly hopes to be.
“Who breathes must suffer, and who thinks must mourn;
And he alone is bless'd who ne'er was born.”
Solomon on the Vanity of the World, book iii, line 240; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“But man is not made for defeat... a man can be destroyed but not defeated.”
Variant: A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
Source: The Old Man and the Sea (1952)