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

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Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot,

To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot.

Essay on Man. Epistle ii. Line 63.

In lazy apathy let stoics boast

Their virtue fix'd: 't is fix'd as in a frost;

Contracted all, retiring to the breast;

But strength of mind is exercise, not rest.

Essay on Man. Epistle ii. Line 101.

On life's vast ocean diversely we sail,

Reason the card, but passion is the gale.