Isthmus Quotes
- 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… — Alexander Pope
- Alas! What is man? Whether he be deprived of that light which is from on high, of whether he discard it, a frail and trembling… — Charles Caleb Colton
- 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
- Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities! — Abraham Cowley
- Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities. — Charles Caleb Colton
- Placed on this isthmus of a middle state. — Alexander Pope