Careful Words

humanity (n.)

He that lacks time to mourn, lacks time to mend.

Eternity mourns that. 'T is an ill cure

For life's worst ills, to have no time to feel them.

Where sorrow's held intrusive and turned out,

There wisdom will not enter, nor true power,

Nor aught that dignifies humanity.

Sir Henry Taylor (1800-18—): Philip Van Artevelde. Part i. Act i. Sc. 5.

  I have thought some of Nature's journeymen had made men and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 2.

Or from Browning some "Pomegranate," which if cut deep down the middle

Shows a heart within blood-tinctured, of a veined humanity.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1809-1861): Lady Geraldine's Courtship. xli.

But hearing oftentimes

The still, sad music of humanity.

William Wordsworth (1770-1850): Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey.

O suffering, sad humanity!

O ye afflicted ones, who lie

Steeped to the lips in misery,

Longing, yet afraid to die,

Patient, though sorely tried!

Henry W Longfellow (1807-1882): The Goblet of Life.

O wearisome condition of humanity!

Lord Brooke (1554-1628): Mustapha. Act v. Sc. 4.

Sail on, O Ship of State!

Sail on, O Union, strong and great!

Humanity with all its fears,

With all the hopes of future years,

Is hanging breathless on thy fate!

Henry W Longfellow (1807-1882): The Building of the Ship.