John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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| Alexander Pope. (1688–1744) (continued) |
| 3416 |
| Ask where ’s the North? At York ’t is on the Tweed; In Scotland at the Orcades; and there, At Greenland, Zembla, or the Lord knows where. |
| Essay on Man. Epistle ii. Line 222. |
| 3417 |
| Virtuous and vicious every man must be,— Few in the extreme, but all in the degree. |
| Essay on Man. Epistle ii. Line 231. |
| 3418 |
| Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die. |
| Essay on Man. Epistle ii. Line 231. |
| 3419 |
| Behold the child, by Nature’s kindly law, Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw; Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite; Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse his riper stage, And beads and prayer-books are the toys of age. Pleased with this bauble still, as that before, Till tired he sleeps, and life’s poor play is o’er. |
| Essay on Man. Epistle ii. Line 274. |
| 3420 |
| While man exclaims, “See all things for my use!” “See man for mine!” replies a pamper’d goose. 1 |
| Essay on Man. Epistle iii. Line 45. |
| 3421 |
| Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale. |
| Essay on Man. Epistle iii. Line 177. |
| 3422 |
| The enormous faith of many made for one. |
| Essay on Man. Epistle iii. Line 242. |
| 3423 |
| For forms of government let fools contest; Whate’er is best administer’d is best. For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; His can’t be wrong whose life is in the right. 2 In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind’s concern is charity. |
| Essay on Man. Epistle iii. Line 303. |
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| O happiness! our being’s end and aim! Good, pleasure, ease, content! whate’er thy name: That something still which prompts the eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die. |
| Essay on Man. Epistle iv. Line 1. |
| Note 1. Why may not a goose say thus?… there is nothing that yon heavenly roof looks upon so favourably as me; I am the darling of Nature. Is it not man that keeps and serves me?—Montaigne: Apology for Raimond Lebond. [back] |
| Note 2. See Cowley, Quotation 4. [back] |