Alexander Pope Quotes

All nature's diff'rence keeps all nature's peace.

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Hear how the birds, on ev'ry blooming spray, With joyous musick wake the dawning day.

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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

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I believe it is no wrong Observation, that Persons of Genius, and those who are most capable of Art, are always fond of Nature, as such are chiefly sensible, that all Art consists in the Imitation and Study of Nature. On the contrary, People of the common Level of Understanding are principally delighted with the Little Niceties and Fantastical Operations of Art, and constantly think that finest which is least Natural.

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Man, like the generous vine, supported lives; the strength he gains is from the embrace he gives.

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All Nature is but art, unknown to thee All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good.

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The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.

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Judge not of actions by their mere effect; Dive to the center, and the cause detect. Great deeds from meanest springs may take their course, And smallest virtues from a mighty source.

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Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.

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So man, who here seems principal alone, Perhaps acts second to some sphere unknown Touches some wheel, or verges to some goal; 'Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.

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Homer excels all the inventors of other arts in this: that he has swallowed up the honor of those who succeeded him.

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Who finds not Providence all good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies.

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Dear, damned, distracting town, farewell! Thy fools no more I'll tease: This year in peace, ye critics, dwell, Ye harlots, sleep at ease!

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Who pants for glory, finds but short repose; A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows.

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

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Fear not the anger of the wise to raise; Those best can bear reproof who merit praise.

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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.

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You eat, in dreams, the custard of the day.

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Tis strange the miser should his cares employTo gain those riches he can ne'er enjoy;Is it less strange the prodigal should wasteHis wealth to purchase what he ne'er can taste?

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Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use.

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