By mine honesty,

If she be mad, as I believe no other,

Her madness hath the oddest frame of sense
(Such a dependency of thing on thing)
As e'er I heard in madness.

3020

Shaks.: M. for M. Act v. Sc. 1

That he is mad, 'tis true; 'tis true, 'tis pity;
And pity 'tis 'tis true.

3021

Though this be madness, yet there is method in it. 3022

Shaks.: Hamlet. Act ii. Sc. 2.

Shaks.: Hamlet. Act ii. Sc. 2.

Shaks.: Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 1

Madness in great ones must not unwatch'd go.

3023

Oh, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown!

The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword: Th' expectancy and rose of the fair state.

3024

Shaks.: Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 1.

My pulse, as yours, doth temp'rately keep time,
And makes as healthful music: it is not madness,
That I have utter'd: bring me to the test,
And I the matter will re-word; which madness
Would gambol from.

3025

Shaks.: Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 4.

Alas, how is't with you,

That you do bend your eye on vacancy,

And with the incorporal air do hold discourse?

3026

Shaks.: Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 4.

There is a pleasure sure,

In being mad, which none but madmen know.

Dryden: Sp. Friar. Act ii. Sc.

3027 Great wits are sure to madness near allied,

And thin partitions do their bounds divide.

3028 Dryden: Absalom and Achitophel. Pt. i. Line 163.

MAN-see Authority, Character, Charity, Courage, Coward ice, Delay, Home, Hypocrisy, Idleness, Measures.

O, what may man within him hide,

Though angel on the outward side!

3029

Shaks.: M. for M. Act iii. Sc. 2.

They say, best men are moulded out of faults;
And for the most, become much more the better

For being a little bad.

3030

Shaks.: M. of M. Act v. Sc. 1.

Oh, what men dare do! what men may do! what men daily

do (not knowing what they do).

3031

Shaks.: Much Ado. Act iv. Sc. 1

If you were men, as men you are in show,
You would not use a gentle lady so.

3032

Shaks.: Mid. N. Dream. Act iii. Sc. 2

In speech, in gait,

In diet, in affections of delight,

In military rules, humors of bloed,

He was the mark and glass, copy and book,

That fashion❜d others.

3033

Shaks.: 2 Henry IV. Act ii. Sc. 3.

But we all are men,

In our own natures frail; and capable
Of our flesh, few are angels.

3034

Shaks. Henry VIII. Act v. Sc. 2

Tetchy and wayward was thy infancy,

Thy school-days frightful, desp'rate, wild, and furious, Thy prime of manhood daring, bold, and vent❜rous. 3035

Shaks.: Richard III. Act iv. Sc. 4.

A rarer spirit never

Did steer humanity; but you, gods, will give us
Some faults to make us men.

3036

Shaks.: Ant. and Cleo. Act v. Sc. 1.

Sc. 2.

God made him, and therefore let him pass for a man.
3037
Shaks.: Mer. of Venice. Act

His life was gentle; and the elements
So mix'd in him, that Nature might stand up,
And say to all the world, "This was a man!"
3038

Shaks.: Jul. Cæsar. Act v. Sc. 5.

There's no trust,

No faith, no honesty in men; all perjur'd, All forsworn, all nought, all dissemblers. 3039

Shaks.: Rom. and Jul. Act iii. Sc. 2.

He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again. 3040

Shaks.: Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 2.

A combination, and a form, indeed,
Where every god did seem to set his seal,
To give the world assurance of a man.
3041

Shaks.: Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 4.

Men, more divine, the masters of all these,
Lords of the wide world, and wild wat'ry seas,
Indued with intellectual sense and souls,
Of more pre-eminence than fish and fowls,
Are masters to their females, and their lords.
3042

Shaks.: Com. of Errors. Act ii. Sc. 1.

Men should be what they seem;

Or, those that be not, would they might seem none!

3043

Shaks.: Othello. Act iii. Sc. 8.

I will sooner trust a crocodile,

When he sheds tears; (for he kills suddenly,
And ends our cares at once;) or anything
That's evil to our natures, than a man;
I find there is no end of his deceivings,
Nor no avoiding them, if we give way.

3044 Beaumont and Fletcher: The Captain. Act ui. Sc Man is one world, and hath

Another to attend him.

Herbert: The Temple. Man

3045 In the sweat of thy face thou shalt eat bread, Till thou return unto the ground; for thou Out of the ground wast taken: know thy birth, For dust thou art, and shalt to dust return. 3046 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. 3047

Milton: Par. Lost. Bk. x. Line 205.

Otway: Orphan. Act ii Sc. 1.

Men are but children of a larger growth;
Our appetites are apt to change as theirs,
And full as craving too, and full as vain.
3048

Dryden: All for Love. Act iv. Sc. 1.

We whisper, and hint, and chuckle, and grin at a brother's

shame;

However we brave it out, we men are a little breed.

3049

Tennyson: Maud. Pt. iv. St. 5.

But what am I?

An infant crying in the night:

An infant crying for the light:
And with no language but a cry.

3050

Tennyson: In Memoriam. Pt. liii. St. 5.

Before man made us citizens, great Nature made us men.

3051

James Russell Lowell: The Capture.

Consider, man; weigh well thy frame,
The king, the beggar, is the same;

Dust form'd us all. Each breathes his day,
Then sinks into his native clay.

3052

Man is practis'd in disguise,

Gay: Fables. Pt. ii. Fable 16.

Gay: Fables. Introduction.

He cheats the most discerning eyes.
3053
Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot,
To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot.

3054

Pope: Essay on Man. Epis ii. Line 68

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan,
The proper study of mankind is Man.
Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state,
A being darkly wise, and rudely great:
With too much knowledge for the sceptic side,
With too much weakness for the stoic's pride,
He hangs between; in doubt to act or rest;
In doubt to deem himself a god or beast;
In doubt his mind or body to prefer;
Born but to die, and reas'ning but to err.
3055

Pope: Essay on Man. Epis. ii. Line 1 On life's vast ocean diversely we sail, Reason the card, but passion is the gale. 3056 Virtuous and vicious every man must be, Few in the extreme, but all in the degree. 3057 Pope: Essay on Man. Epis. ii. Line 231. Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow; The rest is all but leather or prunella.

Pope: Essay on Man. Epis. ii. Line 107.

3058 Pope: Essay on Man. Epis. iv. Line 203. Chaos of thought and passion, all confused; Still by himself abused, or disabused; Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled; The glory, jest, and riddle of the world.

3059

Pope: Essay on Man. Epis. ii. Line 13.

Know, Nature's children all divide her care;
The fur that warms a monarch warm'd a bear.
While man exclaims, "See all things for my use!"
"See man for mine!" replies a pamper'd goose:
And just as short of reason he must fall,

Who thinks all made for one, not one for all.

3060

Pope: Essay on Man. Epis. iii. Line 43

Behold the child, by nature's kindly law,
Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw:
Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight,
A little louder, but as empty quite:

Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse his riper stage,
And beads and prayer-books are the toys of age:
Pleased with this bauble still, as that before,
Till tired he sleeps, and life's poor play is o'er.
3061

Pope: Essay on Man. Epis. ii. Line 275

Man is a very worm by birth,
Vile, reptile, weak and vain!
Awhile he crawls upon the earth,
Then shrinks to earth again.

3062

Pope: To Mr. J. Moore

Not always actions show the man: we find
Who does a kindness, is not therefore kind;
Perhaps prosperity becalm'd his breast;

Perhaps the wind just shifted from the east:
Not therefore humble he who seeks retreat,
Pride guides his steps, and bids him shun the great.
Who combats bravely is not therefore brave,
He dreads a death-bed like the meanest slave:
Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise,
His pride in reasoning, not in acting lies.
3063

Pope: Moral Essays. Epis. i. Line 109

See the same man in vigor, in the gout;
Alone, in company, in place, or out;
Early at business, and at hazard late;
Mad at a fox-chase, wise at a debate;
Drunk at a borough, civil at a ball;
Friendly at Hackney, faithless at Whitehall.
3064

Pope: Moral Essays. Epis. i. Line 70.

A Christian is the highest style of man.

3065

Young: Night Thoughts. Night iv. Line 788.

Fond man! the vision of a moment made!
Dream of a dream! and shadow of a shade!

3066
Young: Par. on Job. Line 187.
How poor, how rich, how abject, how august,
How complicate, how wonderful is man!
How passing wonder He who made him such!
Who centred in our make such strange extremes.

3067

Young: Night Thoughts. Night i. Line 68, All are men,

Condemn'd alike to groan;

The tender for another's pain,
Th' unfeeling for his own.

3068

Gray: Prospect of Eton College. St. 10

Man wants but little here below,

Nor wants that little long.

3069

Goldsmith: Edwin and Angelina. Line 8

What tho' on hamely fare we dine,
Wear hoddin gray, and a' that?

Gie fools their silks and knaves their wine,
A man's a man for a' that!
3070

Burns: For a' That and a' That

All flesh is grass, and all its glory fades
Like the fair flower, dishevell'd in the wind:
Riches have wings, and grandeur is a dream.
3071
Man is a summer's day; whose youth and fire
Cool to a glorious evening, and expire.

3072

Cowper: Task. Bk. iii. Line 259

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