Alexander Pope Quotes, Art Quotes, Believe Quotes

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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Then marble, soften'd into life, grew warm.

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But see, Orion sheds unwholesome dews; Arise, the pines a noxious shade diffuse; Sharp Boreas blows, and nature feels decay, Time conquers all, and we must time obey.

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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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For wit and judgment often are at strife, Though meant each other's aid, like man and wife.

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Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can.

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Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw; Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite; Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse his riper stage, And beads and prayer-books are the toys of age. Pleased with this bauble still, as that before, Till tired he sleeps, and life's poor play is o'er.

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I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.

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Oh! if to dance all night, and dress all day, Charm'd the small-pox, or chas'd old age away; . . . . To patch, nay ogle, might become a saint, Nor could it sure be such a sin to paint.

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Like bubbles on the sea of matter borne, They rise, they break, and to that sea return.

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And soften'd sounds along the waters die: Smooth flow the waves, the zephyrs gently play.

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On wings of wind came flying all abroad.

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The race by vigour, not by vaunts, is won.

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Love, Hope, and Joy, fair pleasure's smiling train, Hate, Fear, and Grief, the family of pain, These mix'd with art, and to due bounds confin'd Make and maintain the balance of the mind.

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Why has not Man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, Man is not a Fly. Say what the use, were finer optics giv'n, T' inspect a mite, not comprehend the heav'n.

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Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it pleasure, and contentment these.

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Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?

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Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd; if right, I kiss'd the rod.

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O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.

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At present we can only reason of the divine justice from what we know of justice in man. When we are in other scenes, we may have truer and nobler ideas of it; but while we are in this life, we can only speak from the volume that is laid open before us.

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