Chapter 368
Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor Hell a fury like a woman scorned.
ALEXANDER POPE. 1688-1744.
ESSAY ON MAN.
Epistle i. Line 5.
Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man; A mighty maze! but not without a plan.
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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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A hero perish or a sparrow fall.
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never _is_, but always _to be_ blest.
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Lo, the poor Indian! whose untutored mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.
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Die of a rose in aromatic pain?
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One truth is clear, Whatever is, is right.
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Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.[11]
[Note 11: From Charron (de la Sagesse):--"La vraye science et le vray etude de l'homme c'est l'homme."]
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Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As to be hated, needs but to be seen; But seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
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Virtuous and vicious every man must be, Few in th' extreme, but all in the degree.
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Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw. Epistle iii. Line 305. For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right. Epistle iv. Line 49. Order is Heaven's first law.
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Honor and shame from no condition rise; Act well your part--there all the honor lies.
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Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow; The rest is all but leather or prunella.
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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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A wit's a feather, and a chief a rod; An honest man's the noblest work of God.
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Plays round the head, but comes not to the heart.
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Think how Bacon shined, The wisest, brightest, meanest of mankind.
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Virtue alone is happiness below.
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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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Formed by thy converse happily to steer Prom grave to gay, from lively to severe.
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MORAL ESSAYS.
Epistle i. Line 135.
'Tis from high life high characters are drawn-- A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn.
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'Tis education forms the common mind: Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
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Odious! in woollen! 'twould a saint provoke, Were the last words that poor Narcissa spoke. Epistle ii. Line 15. Whether the charmers sinner it or saint it, If folly grow romantic, I must paint it.
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Fine by defect and delicately weak.
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With too much quickness ever to be taught, With too much thinking to have common thought.
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Men, some to business, some to pleasure take; But every woman is at heart a rake.
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And mistress of herself, though china fall.
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Woman's at best a contradiction still. Epistle iii. Line 1. Who shall decide when doctors disagree?
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But thousands die without or this or that, Die, and endow a college or a cat.
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The ruling passion, be it what it will, The ruling passion conquers reason still.
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Extremes in nature equal good produce.
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Rise, honest muse! and sing--The man of Ross.
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Who builds a church to God, and not to fame, Will never mark the marble with his name.
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AN ESSAY ON CRITICISM.