Alexander Pope Quotes, Nature Quotes, Ocean Quotes

[T]hro this Air, this Ocean, and this Earth, All Nature quick, and bursting into birth. Above, how high progressive life may go? Around how wide? how deep extend below? Vast Chain of Being! which from God began, Ethereal Essence, Spirit, Substance, Man, Beast, Bird, Fish, Insect! what no Eye can see, No Glass can reach! from Infinite to Thee! From Thee to Nothing.... From Natures Chain whatever Link you strike, Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike.... All are but parts of one stupendous Whole: Whose Body Nature is, and God the Soul.

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Some judge of authors' names, not works, and then Nor praise nor blame the writings, but the men.

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Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be, In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend; And if the means be just, the conduct true, Applause, in spite of trivial faults, is due.

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Religion blushing, veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires.

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No writing is good that does not tend to better mankind in some way or other.

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The mouse that always trusts to one poor hole Can never be a mouse of any soul.

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Astrologers that future fates foreshow.

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If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

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A good-natured man has the whole world to be happy out of.

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Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.

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It is observable that the ladies frequent tragedies more than comedies; the reason may be, that in tragedy their sex is deified and adored, in comedy exposed and ridiculed.

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Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.

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Every professional was once an amateur.

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There should be, methinks, as little merit in loving a woman for her beauty as in loving a man for his prosperity; both being equally subject to change.

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As with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.

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Tis thus the mercury of man is fix'd, Strong grows the virtue with his nature mix'd.

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Satire or sense, alas! Can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?

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A field of glory is a field for all.

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Music the fiercest grief can charm, And fate's severest rage disarm. Music can soften pain to ease, And make despair and madness please; Our joys below it can improve, And antedate the bliss above.

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Nay, fly to altars; there they'll talk you dead; For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

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