Alexander Pope Quotes, Art Quotes, Nature Quotes

Persons of genius, and those who are most capable of art, are always most fond of nature: as such are chiefly sensible, that all art consists in the imitation and study of nature.

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Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.

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Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.

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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.

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Nothing is more certain than much of the force; as well as grace, of arguments or instructions depends their conciseness.

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Some men's wit is like a dark lantern, which serves their own turn and guides them their own way, but is never known (according to the Scripture phrase) either to shine forth before men, or to glorify their Father in heaven.

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Vast chain of being! which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach, from infinite to Thee, From Thee to nothing.

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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.

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The world is a thing we must of necessity either laugh at or be angry at; if we laugh at it, they say we are proud; if we are angry at it, they say we are ill-natured.

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But honest instinct comes a volunteer; Sure never to o'er-shoot, but just to hit, While still too wide or short in human wit.

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What so pure, which envious tongues will spare? Some wicked wits have libell'd all the fair, With matchless impudence they style a wife, The dear-bought curse, and lawful plague of life; A bosom serpent, a domestic evil, A night invasion, and a mid-day devil; Let not the wise these sland'rous words regard, But curse the bones of ev'ry living bard.

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By music minds an equal temper know, Nor swell too high, nor sink too low. . . . . Warriors she fires with animated sounds. Pours balm into the bleeding lover's wounds.

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With too much quickness ever to be taught; With too much thinking to have common thought.

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True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd, Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.

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Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.

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It often happens that those are the best people whose characters have been most injured by slanderers: as we usually find that to be the sweetest fruit which the birds have been picking at.

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In vain sedate reflections we would make When half our knowledge we must snatch, not take.

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Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.

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Death, only death, can break the lasting chain; And here, ev'n then, shall my cold dust remain

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On wings of wind came flying all abroad.

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