"the measure of a man" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1983, Gene A. Getz, The Measure of a Christian: Studies in Titus",
          "text": "The measure of a family is indeed the measure of a man — and a woman ! What we need today in the twentieth - century church , as the Christians did in Crete , are more Christlike family models . This is especially true in a society[…]",
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          "ref": "1967, Jovito R. Salonga, Land of the Morning: A Collection of Speeches and Lectures",
          "text": "We can more easily appreciate the correct measure of a man when Death , by removing him from our sight , paradoxically enables us to see him better . We can more readily comprehend the valor and gallantry of a man in battle when by the[…]",
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          "text": "And what's in the heart defines the measure of a man",
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        "That which shows the value of a person's life; one's non-monetary worth"
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          "roman": "ningen no shakudo",
          "sense": "objective value",
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        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see measure, man."
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