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

Pope.—Essay on Man, Epi. II. Line 19.

One part, one little part, we dimly scan,
Thro’ the dark medium of life’s feverish dream,
Yet dare arraign the whole stupendous plan,
If but that little part incongruous seem,
Nor is that part perhaps what mortals deem.
Oft from apparent ill our blessings rise:
O then renounce that impious self-esteem,
That aims to trace the secrets of the skies:
For thou art but of dust; be humble, and be wise.

Beattie.—The Minstrel, Book I. Stanza 50.

O, see the monstrousness of man
When he looks out in an ungrateful shape!

Shakespeare.—Timon of Athens, Act III. Scene 2. (The first Stranger to Another.)

No laws, or human or divine,
Can the presumptuous race of man confine.

Francis’ Horace.—Book I. Ode III. Line 27.

MAN.—So man, the moth, is not afraid, it seems,
To span omnipotence, and measure might,
That knows no measure, by the scanty rule
And standard of his own, that is to-day,
And is not ere to-morrow’s sun go down.

Cowper.—The Task, Book VI. Line 211.

Inhumanity is caught from man—
From smiling man.

Young.—Night V. Line 158.

Man’s revenge,
And endless inhumanities on man.

Young.—Night VIII. Line 104.

O Thou who dost permit these ills to fall,
For gracious ends, and would’st that men should mourn!

Young.—Night VIII. Line 134.

And man, whose heaven-directed face
The smiles of love adorn,
Man’s inhumanity to man
Makes countless thousands mourn!

Burns.—Man was Made to Mourn, Verse 7.

Trust not a man; we are by nature false,
Dissembling, subtle, cruel, and unconstant:
When a man talks of love, with caution trust him;
But if he swears, he’ll certainly deceive thee.

Otway.—The Orphan, Act II. Scene 1.

Man doth purpose, but God doth dispose.

Thomas À Kempis.—De Imit. Christ., Book I. Chap. XIX. Div. 2.

Man proposeth, God disposeth.

George Herbert.—Jacula Prudentum, Line 2.

A proper man, as one shall see in a summer’s day.

Shakespeare.—A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act I. Scene 2. (Quince instructing Bottom to play Pyramus.)