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Human

adjective

Characteristic of humanity.

Relating to a person.

Having human form or attributes as opposed to those of animals or divine beings. "The human body" , "Human kindness" , "Human frailty" Antonym: nonhuman.

noun

Any living or extinct member of the family Hominidae characterized by superior intelligence, articulate speech, and erect carriage. Synonyms: homo, human being, man.

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"Human" Quotes from Famous Books

... travelling theatre. Against this coloured background and that of the West-end stage is the story of the men who craved her for her beauty alone. Here is no impossible heroine who survives her many ordeals unscathed—Sheila Fitzpatrick is but human after all—but the reader's sympathy will be ...

— Berry And Co. • Dornford Yates

... image fresh from nature's mint, and bearing her own beautiful and genuine impress, struck them with delightful surprise, and melted them into conciliation; and conciliation towards Mr. Henry was victory inevitable. In short, he understood the human character so perfectly; knew so well all its strength and all its weaknesses, together with every path and by-way which winds around the citadel of the best fortified heart and mind, that he never failed to take them, either by stratagem ...

— Patrick Henry • Moses Coit Tyler

... have seen am glad to close my eyes, I who have soared am weary of my wings, I seek no more the secret of the wise, Safe among shadowy, unreal human things. ...

— A Cluster of Grapes - A Book of Twentieth Century Poetry • Various

... divine energy: so that I do not consider that a poet can produce a serious and sublime poem without some divine impulse working on his mind; nor do I think that eloquence, abounding with sonorous words and fruitful sentences, can flow thus without something beyond mere human power. But as to philosophy, that is the parent of all the arts: what can we call that but, as Plato says, a gift, or, as I express it, an invention, of the Gods? This it was which first taught us the worship of the Gods; and then led us on to justice, which arises from the human race ...

— Cicero's Tusculan Disputations - Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth • Marcus Tullius Cicero

... reasons which animated the martyrs to resist unjust human laws, interfering with or directing the mode of divine worship; and such are the reasons which prevent conformity to national religions, to the payment of church ...

— The Works of John Bunyan • John Bunyan

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