Heav'n forming each on other to depend,
A master, or a servant, or a friend,
Bids each on other for assistance call,
Till one man's weakness grows the strength of all.
Essay on Man, Epistle II. A. POPE.
Love all, trust a few,
Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
Rather in power than use, and keep thy friend
Under thy own life's key: be checked for silence,
But never taxed for speech.
All's Well That Ends Well, Act i. Sc. 1. SHAKESPEARE.
A people is but the attempt of many
To rise to the completer life of one—
And those who live as models for the mass
Are singly of more value than they all.
Luria, Act v. R. BROWNING.
There my retreat the best companions grace,
Chiefs out of war, and statesmen out of place;
There St. John mingles with my friendly bowl,
The feast of reason and the flow of soul.
Imitations of Horace, Satire I. Bk. II. A. POPE.
Here thou, great Anna! whom three realms obey,
Dost sometimes counsel take—and sometimes tea.
Rape of the Lock, Canto III. A. POPE.
Among unequals what society
Can sort, what harmony, or true delight?
Paradise Lost, Bk. VIII. MILTON.
The company is "mixed" (the phrase I quote is
As much as saying, they're below your notice).
Beppo. LORD BYRON.
Society is now one polished horde.
Formed of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored.
Don Juan, Canto XI. LORD BYRON.
SOLDIER.
He stands erect; his slouch becomes a walk;
He steps right onward, martial in his air,
His form and movement.
The Task, Bk. IV. W. COWPER.