John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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| Alexander Pope. (1688–1744) (continued) |
| Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell, Aspiring to be angels, men rebel. |
| Essay on Man. Epistle i. Line 123. |
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| Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise; My footstool earth, my canopy the skies. 1 |
| Essay on Man. Epistle i. Line 139. |
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| Why has not man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason,—man is not a fly. |
| Essay on Man. Epistle i. Line 193. |
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| Die of a rose in aromatic pain. |
| Essay on Man. Epistle i. Line 200. |
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| The spider’s touch, how exquisitely fine! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line. 2 |
| Essay on Man. Epistle i. Line 217. |
| 3402 |
| Remembrance and reflection how allied! What thin partitions sense from thought divide! 3 |
| Essay on Man. Epistle i. Line 225. |
| 3403 |
| All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul. |
| Essay on Man. Epistle i. Line 267. |
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| Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees. |
| Essay on Man. Epistle i. Line 271. |
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| As full, as perfect, in vile man that mourns As the rapt seraph that adores and burns: To Him no high, no low, no great, no small; 4 He fills, he bounds, connects, and equals all! |
| Essay on Man. Epistle i. Line 277. |
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| All nature is but art, unknown to thee; All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good; And spite of pride, in erring reason’s spite, One truth is clear, Whatever is, is right. 5 |
| Essay on Man. Epistle i. Line 289. |
| Note 1. All the parts of the universe I have an interest in: the earth serves me to walk upon; the sun to light me; the stars have their influence upon me.—Montaigne: Apology for Raimond Sebond. [back] |
| Note 2. See Sir John Davies, Quotation 1. [back] |
| Note 3. See Dryden, Quotation 5. [back] |
| Note 4. There is no great and no small.—Ralph Waldo Emerson: Epigraph to History. [back] |
| Note 5. See Dryden, Quotation 91. [back] |