3275. Isaac Watts. 1674-1748. John Bartlett, comp. 1919. Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.

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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.


NUMBER:	3275
AUTHOR:	Isaac Watts (1674–1748)
QUOTATION:	Were I so tall to reach the pole, Or grasp the ocean with my span, I must be measured by my soul: The mind ’s the standard of the man. 1
ATTRIBUTION:	Horæ Lyricæ, Book ii. False Greatness.
BIOGRAPHY:	Columbia Encyclopedia.

Note 1.
I do not distinguish by the eye, but by the mind, which is the proper judge of the man.—Seneca: On a Happy Life (L’Estrange’s Abstract), chap. i.

It is the mind that makes the man, and our vigour is in our immortal soul.—Ovid: Metamorphoses, xiii. [back]

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