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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

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Alexander Pope. (1688–1744) (continued)
 
Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes:
Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell,
Aspiring to be angels, men rebel.
          Essay on Man. Epistle i. Line 123.
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    Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise;
My footstool earth, my canopy the skies. 1
          Essay on Man. Epistle i. Line 139.
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    Why has not man a microscopic eye?
For this plain reason,—man is not a fly.
          Essay on Man. Epistle i. Line 193.
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    Die of a rose in aromatic pain.
          Essay on Man. Epistle i. Line 200.
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    The spider’s touch, how exquisitely fine!
Feels at each thread, and lives along the line. 2
          Essay on Man. Epistle i. Line 217.
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    Remembrance and reflection how allied!
What thin partitions sense from thought divide! 3
          Essay on Man. Epistle i. Line 225.
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    All are but parts of one stupendous whole,
Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
          Essay on Man. Epistle i. Line 267.
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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.
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    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; 4
He fills, he bounds, connects, and equals all!
          Essay on Man. Epistle i. Line 277.
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    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. 5
          Essay on Man. Epistle i. Line 289.
 
Note 1.
All the parts of the universe I have an interest in: the earth serves me to walk upon; the sun to light me; the stars have their influence upon me.—Montaigne: Apology for Raimond Sebond. [back]
Note 2.
See Sir John Davies, Quotation 1. [back]
Note 3.
See Dryden, Quotation 5. [back]
Note 4.
There is no great and no small.—Ralph Waldo Emerson: Epigraph to History. [back]
Note 5.
See Dryden, Quotation 91. [back]