"Remembrance and reflection how allied! What thin partitions sense from thought divide!"

Essay on Man. Epistle i. Line 225.

"All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul."

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"Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees."

Essay on Man. Epistle i. Line 271.

"As full, as perfect, in vile man that mourns As the rapt seraph that adores and burns: To Him no high, no low, no great, no small; He fills, he bounds, connects, and equals all!"

Essay on Man. Epistle i. Line 277.

"All nature is but art, unknown to thee; All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good; And spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, One truth is clear, Whatever is, is right."

Essay on Man. Epistle i. Line 289.

"Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man."

Essay on Man. Epistle ii. Line 1.

"Chaos of thought and passion, all confused; Still by himself abused or disabused; Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled,-- The glory, jest, and riddle of the world."

Essay on Man. Epistle ii. Line 13.

"Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot."

Essay on Man. Epistle ii. Line 63.

"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."

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"On life's vast ocean diversely we sail, Reason the card, but passion is the gale."

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"And hence one master-passion in the breast, Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest."

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"The young disease, that must subdue at length, Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength."

Essay on Man. Epistle ii. Line 135.

"Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use."

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"Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace."

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"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."

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"Virtuous and vicious every man must be,-- Few in the extreme, but all in the degree."

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"Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die. 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.

"While man exclaims, "See all things for my use!" "See man for mine!" replies a pamper'd goose."

Essay on Man. Epistle iii. Line 45.

"Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale."

Essay on Man. Epistle iii. Line 177.

"The enormous faith of many made for one."

Essay on Man. Epistle iii. Line 242.

"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. In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity."

Essay on Man. Epistle iii. Line 303.

"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."

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"Order is Heaven's first law."

Essay on Man. Epistle iv. Line 49.

"Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words,--health, peace, and competence."

Essay on Man. Epistle iv. Line 79.

"The soul's calm sunshine and the heartfelt joy."

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"Honour and shame from no condition rise; Act well your part, there all the honour lies."

Essay on Man. Epistle iv. Line 193.

"Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow; The rest is all but leather or prunello."

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"What can ennoble sots or slaves or cowards? Alas! not all the blood of all the Howards."

Essay on Man. Epistle iv. Line 215.

"A wit 's a feather, and a chief a rod; An honest man 's the noblest work of God."

Essay on Man. Epistle iv. Line 247.

"Plays round the head, but comes not to the heart. One self-approving hour whole years outweighs Of stupid starers and of loud huzzas; And more true joy Marcellus exil'd feels Than Cæsar with a senate at his heels. In parts superior what advantage lies? Tell (for you can) what is it to be wise? 'T is but to know how little can be known; To see all others' faults, and feel our own."

Essay on Man. Epistle iv. Line 254.

"Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land? All fear, none aid you, and few understand."

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"If parts allure thee, think how Bacon shin'd, The wisest, brightest, meanest of mankind! Or ravish'd with the whistling of a name, See Cromwell, damn'd to everlasting fame!"

Essay on Man. Epistle iv. Line 281.

"Know then this truth (enough for man to know),-- "Virtue alone is happiness below.""

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"Never elated when one man 's oppress'd; Never dejected while another 's bless'd."

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"Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God."

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"Form'd by thy converse, happily to steer From grave to gay, from lively to severe."

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"Say, shall my little bark attendant sail, Pursue the triumph and partake the gale?"

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"Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend."

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"That virtue only makes our bliss below, And all our knowledge is ourselves to know."

Essay on Man. Epistle iv. Line 397.

"To observations which ourselves we make, We grow more partial for th' observer's sake."

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"Like following life through creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment you detect."

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"In vain sedate reflections we would make When half our knowledge we must snatch, not take."

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"Not always actions show the man; we find Who does a kindness is not therefore kind."

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"Who combats bravely is not therefore brave, He dreads a death-bed like the meanest slave: Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise,-- His pride in reasoning, not in acting lies."

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"'T is from high life high characters are drawn; A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn."

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"'T is education forms the common mind: Just as the twig is bent the tree 's inclined."

Moral Essays. Epistle i. Line 149.

"Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times."

Moral Essays. Epistle i. Line 172.

""Odious! in woollen! 't would a saint provoke," Were the last words that poor Narcissa spoke."

Moral Essays. Epistle i. Line 246.

"And you, brave Cobham! to the latest breath Shall feel your ruling passion strong in death."

Moral Essays. Epistle i. Line 262.

"Whether the charmer sinner it or saint it, If folly grow romantic, I must paint it."

Moral Essays. Epistle ii. Line 15.