In lazy apathy let stoics boast
Their virtue fix'd: 't is fix'd as in a frost;
Contracted all, retiring to the breast;
But strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
-- Essay on Man, Epistle ii, Line 101
Their virtue fix'd: 't is fix'd as in a frost;
Contracted all, retiring to the breast;
But strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
-- Essay on Man, Epistle ii, Line 101
Related:
- And hence one master-passion in the breast,
Like Aaron's serpent,
swallows up the rest. -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)... - The young disease, that must subdue at length,
Grows with his growth,
and strengthens with his strength. -- Alexander Pope... - That virtue only makes our bliss below,
And all our knowledge is ourselves to know.
Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Man, Epistle... - Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow;
The rest is all but leather or prunello.
Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Man, Epistle... - Virtuous and vicious every man must be,--
Few in the extreme,
but all in the degree. -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)... - Know then this truth (enough for man to know),--
"Virtue alone is happiness below."
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Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Man, Epistle... - Know then thyself, presume not God to scan;
The proper study of mankind is man.
Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Man, Epistle... - Extremes in nature equal ends produce;
In man they join to some mysterious use.
Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Man, Epistle... - Hope springs eternal in the human breast:
Man never is,
but always to be blest. The soul, uneasy and confined...
