Why has not man a microscopic eye?
For this plain reason,--man is not a fly.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
-- Essay on Man, Epistle i, Line 193
For this plain reason,--man is not a fly.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
-- Essay on Man, Epistle i, Line 193
Related:
- Honour and shame from no condition rise;
Act well your part,
there all the honour lies. -- Alexander Pope (1688... - Die of a rose in aromatic pain.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
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Essay on Man, Epistle i, Line... - 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... - 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... - On life's vast ocean diversely we sail,
Reason the card,
but passion is the gale. -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)... - 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... - The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine!
Feels at each thread,
and lives along the line. -- Alexander Pope (1688... - Remembrance and reflection how allied!
What thin partitions sense from thought divide!
Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Man, Epistle... - All are but parts of one stupendous whole,
Whose body Nature is,
and God the soul. -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) ...
