Golden Words From England 1

Golden Words from England selected by Peter Milward.
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chap. 1 Man

1. What is a man
If his chief good and market of his time
Be but to sleep and feed? A beast, no more.
- William Shakespeare (1564-1616) Hamlet iv. 4

2. We look before and after;
We pine for what is not.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) "To a Skylark"

3. Know then thyself, presume not God to scan;
The proper study of mankind is man.
- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) An Essay on Man II

4. Heaven is for thee too high
To know what passes there. Be lowly wise.
Think only what concerns thee and thy being.
- John Militon (1608-74) Paradise Lost VIII

5. The child is father of the man;
And I could wish my days to be
Bound each to each by natural piety.
- William Wordsworth (1770-1850) "My Heart Leaps Up"

6. How many goodly creatures are there here!
How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,
That has such people in it!
- William Shakespeare (1564-1616) The Tempest v. 1

7. Men must endure
Their going hence, even as their coming hither;
Ripeness is all.
- William Shakespeare (1564-1616) King Lear v. 2