Alexander Pope: Vast chain of being! which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye c

Vast chain of being! which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, — Alexander Pope

Vast chain of being! which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach, from infinite to Thee, From Thee to nothing.

Alexander Pope

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For many years I was self-appointed inspector of snowstorms and rainstorms, and — Henry David Thoreau
Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque recurrit. — You may turn nature out of doors with violence
The bluebird carries the sky on his back. — Henry David Thoreau
As in the eye of Nature he has lived, So in the eye of Nature let him die! — William Wordsworth
A scholar who loves comfort is not worthy of the name. — Confucius
The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so t — Samuel Butler
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Men never do good unless necessity drives them to it; but when they are free to — Niccolò Machiavelli
Yet the deepest truths are best read between the lines , and, for the most part, — Amos Bronson Alcott
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We are weak, watery beings standing in the midst of unrealities; therefore let u — Seneca