MEN AND THEIR QUALITIES

 

          MEN AND THEIR QUALITIES

‘Men’ is plural of an adult male human being. Its synonyms  are: males, gents,  chaps, guys , personages, fellows and individuals.

The opposite of men is females, women and ladies. 

Men and women together make mankind, the human race, the human species and the people.

The qualities of men are : manliness, bravery, courage, heroism, boldness, mettle, valour, fortitude, etc.

One can put an adjective before men and form compounds like : gentlemen,  great men. brave men, industrious men, sluggish men, religious men, wicked men, godly men, etc.

A nation’s strength depends more upon its men than upon its material resources. The American poet Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-82 ) says:

Not gold, but only men can make

A people great and strong  

Men who, for truth and honour’s sake,

Stand fast and suffer long.

Brave men who work while others sleep,

Who dare while others fly,

They build a nation’s pillars deep,

And lift them to the sky.

 

Another American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) says:

 

Lives of great men all remind us

We can make our lives sublime,

And, departing, leave behind us

Footprints, on the sands of time;

Footprints , that perhaps another,

Sailing o’er life’s solemn main,

A forlorn and shipwrecked brother,

Seeing, shall take heart again.

                       

            Finally, this quote: One man with courage makes a majority.

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G.R.Kanwal

2^nd December 2024