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On Life's Vast Ocean Diversely We Sail, Reason The Card, But Passion Is The Gale.
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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
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Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.
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Say, shall my little bark attendant sail, Pursue the triumph and partake 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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T is but a part we see, and not a whole.
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Why has not man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason,--man is not a fly.
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Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use.
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Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.
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Virtuous and vicious every man must be,-- Few in the extreme, but all in the degree.
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