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| John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
| Page 315 |
| Alexander Pope. (1688–1744) (continued) |
| 3387 |
| Together let us beat this ample field, Try what the open, what the covert yield. |
| Essay on Man. Epistle i. Line 9. |
| 3388 |
| Eye Nature’s walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise; Laugh where we must, be candid where we can, But vindicate the ways of God to man. 1 |
| Essay on Man. Epistle i. Line 13. |
| 3389 |
| Say first, of God above or man below, What can we reason but from what we know? |
| Essay on Man. Epistle i. Line 17. |
| 3390 |
| ’T is but a part we see, and not a whole. |
| Essay on Man. Epistle i. Line 60. |
| 3391 |
| Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate, All but the page prescrib’d, their present state. |
| Essay on Man. Epistle i. Line 77. |
| 3392 |
| Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood. |
| Essay on Man. Epistle i. Line 83. |
| 3393 |
| Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl’d, And now a bubble burst, and now a world. |
| Essay on Man. Epistle i. Line 87. |
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| Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be blest. 2 The soul, uneasy and confined from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come. |
| Essay on Man. Epistle i. Line 95. |
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| Lo, the poor Indian! whose untutor’d mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind; His soul proud Science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or milky way. |
| Essay on Man. Epistle i. Line 99. |
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| But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company. |
| Essay on Man. Epistle i. Line 111. |
| 3397 |
| In pride, in reasoning pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies. |
| Note 1. See Milton, Quotation 218. [back] |
| Note 2. Thus we never live, but we hope to live; and always disposing ourselves to be happy.—Blaise Pascal: Thoughts, chap. v. 2. [back] |
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