Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

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Essay on Man. Epistle i. Line 13.

Say first, of God above or man below,

What can we reason but from what we know?

Essay on Man. Epistle i. Line 17.

'T is but a part we see, and not a whole.

Essay on Man. Epistle i. Line 60.

Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate,

All but the page prescrib'd, their present state.

Essay on Man. Epistle i. Line 77.

Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food,