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Tag Name "Isthmus" (7)

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Placed on this isthmus of a middle state.
Alexander Pope
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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
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What shall we call this undetermin'd state, This narrow isthmus 'twixt two boundless oceans, That whence we came, and that to which we tend?
George Lillo
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Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!
Abraham Cowley
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Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise and rudely great... 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 to die, and reasoning but to err.
Alexander Pope
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Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.
Charles Caleb Colton
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There are continents and seas in the moral world, to which every man is an isthmus or inlet, yet unexplored by him.
Henry David Thoreau