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Say First, Of God Above Or Man Below, What Can We Reason But From What We Know?
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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 i, Line 17
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T is but a part we see, and not a whole.
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Remembrance and reflection how allied! What thin partitions sense from thought divide!
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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...
Know then this truth (enough for man to know),-- "Virtue alone is happiness below.
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Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise
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That virtue only makes our bliss below, And all our knowledge is ourselves to know.
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What can ennoble sots or slaves or cowards? Alas! not all the blood of all the Howards.
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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...
Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.
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