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Alexander Pope Quotes About Nature

Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

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

Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!

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

The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.

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

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

The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

Alexander Pope Quotes About Art

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those who move easiest have learned to dance.

A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.

All nature is but art unknown to thee.

So vast is art, so narrow human wit.

More Quotes by Alexander Pope

Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.

Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.

No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.

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

'Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.

How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.

Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.

Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.

Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.

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

Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.

But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.

Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.

Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.

Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.

Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.

True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.

Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.

Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.

Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.

Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.

Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.

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

'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.

The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.

For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.

But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?

On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.

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

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

Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be.

Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.

Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.

To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake.

There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.

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

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

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

Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.

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