Chapter MAID to MAN of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

Spenser.—The Fairy Queen, Book II. Canto II. Stanza 2; Shakespeare—King Henry VIII. Act III. Scene 2.

What a piece of work is man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving, how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god!

Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act II. Scene 2. (Hamlet to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.)

Man is his own star, and that soul that can
Be honest, is the only perfect man.

Fletcher.—Miscellaneous Poems.

Man, each man’s born
For the high business of the public good.
For me, ’tis mine to pray, that men regard
Their occupations with an honest heart,
And cheerful diligence

Dyer.—The Fleece, Book II.

Man hath his daily work of body or mind appointed.

Milton.—Paradise Lost, Book IV.

Man doom’d to care, to pain, disease, and strife,
Walks his short journey through the vale of life:
Watchful, attends the cradle and the grave,
And passing generations longs to save:
Last dies himself: yet wherefore should we mourn?
For man must to his kindred dust return;
Submit to the destroying hand of fate,
As ripen’d ears the harvest-sickle wait.

Euripides.—Yonge’s Cicero, Tusculan Disp. Book III. Page 387.

Man!
Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear.

Byron.—Childe Harold, Canto IV. Stanza 109.

Man is the tale of narrative old time.

Young.—Night VIII. Line 109.

MAN.—Man wants but little here below,
Nor wants that little long.

Goldsmith.—The Hermit, Verse 8.

Man wants but little; nor that little long.

Young.—Night IV. Line 118; Goldsmith— Learning wisdom in retirement.

Say first, of God above, or man below,
What can we reason, but from what we know?
Of man, what see we but his station here,
From which to reason, or to which refer?

Pope.—Essay on Man, Epi. I. Line 17.

Why has not man a microscopic eye?
For this plain reason, man is not a fly.
Say what the use, were finer optics given,
T’ inspect a mite, not comprehend the heaven?

Pope.—Essay on Man, Epi. I. Line 193.

Go, wondrous creature! mount where science guides,
Go, measure earth, weigh air, and state the tides;
Instruct the planets in what orbs to run,
Correct old Time, and regulate the sun;
Go, teach Eternal Wisdom how to rule,
Then drop into thyself, and be a fool!