Quotes from work

Astronomica

“Every one is in a small way the image of God.”
Exemplumque dei quisque est in imagine parva.

“Labor is itself a pleasure.”
Labor est etiam ipse voluptas.

“Man must be so weighed as though there were a God within him.”
Impendendus homo est, deus esse ut possit in ipso.

“No barriers, no masses of matter, however enormous, can withstand the powers of the mind. The remotest corners yield to them; all things succumb, the very heaven itself is laid open.”
Rationi nulla resistunt. Claustra nec immensæ moles, ceduntque recessus: Omnia succumbunt, ipsum est penetrabile cœlum.

“Experience is always sowing the seed of one thing after another.”
Semper enim ex aliis alias proseminat usus.

“As we are born we die, and the end commences with the beginning.”
Nascentes morimur, finisque ab origine pendet.

“By several proofs experience art has made,
Example being guide.”
Per varios usus artem experientia fecit, Exemplo monstrante viam.

“We are always beginning to live, but are never living.”
Victuros agimus semper, nec vivimus unquam.

“Who can know heaven except by its gifts? and who can find out God, unless the man who is himself an emanation from God?”
Quis cœlum possit nisi cœli munere nosse? Et reperire deum nisi qui pars ipse deorum est?

“Seek not the measure of matter; fix your gaze
Upon the power of reason, not of bulk;
For reason 'tis that all things overcomes.”
Materiae ne quaere modum; sed perspice vires Quas ratio, non pondus habet; ratio omnia vincit.

“Who can believe that all these mighty works
Have grown, unaided by the hand of God,
From small beginnings? that the law is blind
by which the world was made?”
Quis credat tantas operum sine numine moles Ex minimis, caecoque creatum foedere mundum?

“How many realms since Troy have been o'erthrown?
How many nations captive led? How oft
Has Fortune up and down throughout the world
Changed slavery for dominion?”
Quot post excidium Trojae sunt eruta regna? Quot capti populi? quoties Fortuna per orbem Servitium imperiumque tulit, varieque revertit?

“The hours fly around in a circle.”
Volat hora per orbem.

“Time stands with impartial law.”
Æquo stat fœdere tempus.

“All things obey fixed laws.”
Certis legibus omnia parent.

“Death's law brings change to all created things;
Lands cease to know themselves as years roll on.
As centuries pass, e'en nations change their form,
Yet safe the world remains, with all it holds.”
Omnia mortali mutantur lege creata, Nec se cognoscunt terræ vertentibus annis, Et mutant variam faciem per sæcula gentes, At manet incolumis mundus suaque omnia servat.

“Nascentes morimur, finisque ab origine pendet.”