Alexander Pope Quotes, Pain Quotes, Learning Quotes

Trace Science, then, with Modesty thy guide, First strip off all her equipage of Pride, Deduct what is but Vanity or Dress, Or Learning's Luxury or idleness, Or tricks, to show the stretch of the human brain Mere curious pleasure or ingenious pain.

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Why did I write? whose sin to me unknown Dipt me in ink, my parents', or my own? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.

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Placed on this isthmus of a middle state.

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And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.

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What Tully said of war may be applied to disputing: "It should be always so managed as to remember that the only true end of it is peace." But generally true disputants are like true sportsmen,--their whole delight is in the pursuit; and the disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.

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How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

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I am his Highness' dog at Kew; Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?

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Physicians are in general the most amiable companions and the best friends, as well as the most learned men I know.

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O Love! for Sylvia let me gain the prize, And make my tongue victorious as her eyes.

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When two people compliment each other with the choice of anything, each of them generally gets that which he likes least.

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At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.

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Sole judge of Truth, in endless Error hurled: / The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!

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A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.

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To teach vain Wits that Science little known, T' admire Superior Sense, and doubt their own!

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For forms of government, let fools contest; Whate'er is best administered, is best.

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Know, Nature's children all divide her care, The fur that warms a monarch warmed a bear.

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For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest.

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It is not so much the being exempt from faults, as having overcome them, that is an advantage to us.

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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.

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Grave authors say, and witty poets sing, That honest wedlock is a glorious thing.

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