Virtuous and vicious every man must be,--
Few in the extreme, but all in the degree.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
-- Essay on Man, Epistle ii, Line 231
Few in the extreme, but all in the degree.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
-- Essay on Man, Epistle ii, Line 231
Related:
- The young disease, that must subdue at length,
Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Man, Epistle ii, Line 135... - Extremes in nature equal ends produce;
In man they join to some mysterious use.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Man, Epistle ii, Line 205... - Know then thyself, presume not God to scan;
The proper study of mankind is man.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Man, Epistle ii, Line 1... - Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land?
All fear, none aid you, and few understand.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Man, Epistle iv, Line 261... - In lazy apathy let stoics boast
Their virtue fix'd
't is fix'd as in a frost; Contracted all, retiring to the brea... - And hence one master-passion in the breast,
Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Man, Epistle ii, Line 131... - Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot,
To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Man, Epistle ii, Line 63... - 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... - 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 iv, Line 203...
