On life's vast ocean diversely we sail,
Reason the card, but passion is the gale.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
-- Essay on Man, Epistle ii, Line 107
Reason the card, but passion is the gale.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
-- Essay on Man, Epistle ii, Line 107
Related:
- Learn of the little nautilus to sail,
Spread the thin oar,
and catch the driving gale. -- Alexander Pope (1688... - Say, shall my little bark attendant sail,
Pursue the triumph and partake the gale?
Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Man, Epistle... - And hence one master-passion in the breast,
Like Aaron's serpent,
swallows up the rest. -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)... - Say first, of God above or man below,
What can we reason but from what we know?
Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Man, Epistle... - T is but a part we see, and not a whole.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
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Essay on Man, Epistle i, Line... - Why has not man a microscopic eye?
For this plain reason,
man is not a fly. -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) ... - Extremes in nature equal ends produce;
In man they join to some mysterious use.
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... - Virtuous and vicious every man must be,--
Few in the extreme,
but all in the degree. -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)...
