Quotes with isthmus

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• If, presume not to 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.

  ― Alexander Pope
  English poet (1688 - 1744)
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• Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

  ― Charles Caleb Colton
  English writer (1777 - 1832)
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• Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!

  ― Abraham Cowley
  English poet (1618 - 1667)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• eternities
• weak-built
• isthmus
• between
• proudly
• rudely

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