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Pleasures are ever in our hands or eyes; And when in act they cease, in prospect rise. - Essay on Man (ep. II, l. 123) [Pleasure] Chaos of thought and passion all confused. - Essay on Man (ep. II, l. 13) [Man : Proverbs] Chaos of thought and passion, all confused; Still by himself abused and 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 (ep. II, l. 13) [Man] As man, perhaps, the moment of his breath, Receives the lurking principle of death, The younger disease, that must subdue at length, Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength. - Essay on Man (ep. II, l. 133) [Disease] Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength. - Essay on Man (ep. II, l. 136) [Growth] 'Tis thus the mercury of man is fix'd, Strong grows the virtue with his nature mix'd. - Essay on Man (ep. II, l. 178) [Growth] Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learn'd or brave. - Essay on Man (ep. II, l. 191) [Emulation : Envy] Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As to be hated need but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. - Essay on Man (ep. II, l. 217) [Vice] Virtuous and vicious every man must be, Few in the extreme, but all in the degree. - Essay on Man (ep. II, l. 231) [Man] Heav'n forming each on other to depend, A master, or a servant, or a friend, Bids each on other for assistance call, Till one man's weakness grows the strength of all. - Essay on Man (ep. II, l. 249) [Society] Heaven forming each on other to depend, A master, or a servant, or a friend, Bids each on other for assistance call, Till one man's weakness grows the strength of all. - Essay on Man (ep. II, l. 249) [Weakness] Whate'er the passion, knowledge, fame, or pelf, Not one will change his neighbor with himself. - Essay on Man (ep. II, l. 261) [Contentment] The fool is happy that he knows no more. - Essay on Man (ep. II, l. 264) [Folly] The starving chemist in his golden views Supremely blest. - Essay on Man (ep. II, l. 269) [Alchemy] Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die. - Essay on Man (ep. II, l. 273) [Hope] 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; with this bauble still, as that before; Till tired he sleeps, and life's poor play is o'er._ - Essay on Man (ep. II, l. 275) [Childhood] Till tired, he sleeps, and life's poor play is o'er. - Essay on Man (ep. II, l. 282) [Death] And not a vanity is given in vain. - Essay on Man (ep. II, l. 290) [Vanity] Placed on this isthmus of a middle state. - Essay on Man (ep. II, l. 3) [Life] Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate and rot. - Essay on Man (ep. II, l. 63) [Life] See dying vegetables life sustain, See life dissolving vegetate again; All forms that perish other forms supply; (By turns we catch the vital breath and die.) - Essay on Man (ep. III, l. 15) [Change] But just disease to luxury succeeds, And ev'ry death its own avenger breeds. - Essay on Man (ep. III, l. 165) [Disease] Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield; Learn from the beasts the physic of the field; The arts of building from the bee receive; Learn of the mole to plough, the worm to weave. - Essay on Man (ep. III, l. 173) [Learning] Learn from the beasts the physic of the field. - Essay on Man (ep. III, l. 174) [Medicine] Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale. - Essay on Man (ep. III, l. 177) [Boating] Displaying page 20 of 34 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 [20] 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34
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