work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context 4525,"",HDIS,2003-11-04 00:00:00 UTC,"In lazy Apathy let Stoics boast
Their virtue fix'd; 'tis fix'd as in a frost,
Contracted all, retiring to the breast;
But strength of mind is exercise, not rest:
The rising tempest puts in act the soul,
Parts it may ravage, but preserves the whole.
On Life's vast ocean diversely we sail,
Reason the card, but Passion is the gale
:
Nor God alone in the still calm we find;
He mounts the storm, and walks upon the Wind .
(Epistle II, ll. 101-110)
",,11876,"•I've included twice: 'Card' and 'Gale'
•Note that ""card"" is a mariner's chart. Shaftesbury uses a similar metaphor in Soliloquy: ""Thus much for antiquity and those rules of art, those philosophical seacards by which the adventurous geniuses of the times ere wont to steer their courses and govern their impetuous muse"" (92).
•Are the previous lines worthy of entries? REVISIT","""On Life's vast ocean diversely we sail, / Reason the card, but Passion is the gale.""","",2009-09-14 19:36:21 UTC,Epistle II