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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
#Change
#Destiny
#Great
#Harmony
#Nature
True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.
- Alexander Pope
#Being
#Easy
#Politeness
#Self
#True
Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use.
- Alexander Pope
#Equal
#Join
#Man
#Mysterious
#Nature
Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.
- Alexander Pope
#Die
#Hope
#Nor
#Through
#Us
Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
- Alexander Pope
#Capable
#Cunning
#Doing
#Men
#Wise
Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men.
- Alexander Pope
#Honor
#Men
#Merit
#Praise
#Think
Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.
- Alexander Pope
#Content
#Dwell
#Painful
#She
#Virtue
Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.
- Alexander Pope
#Leave
#Like
#Stronger
#Time
#Us
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.
- Alexander Pope
#Friend
#Hate
#Love
#Man
#Woman
How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
- Alexander Pope
#Forgetting
#Happy
#How
#Lot
#World
A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.
- Alexander Pope
#Fate
#God
#Nature
#Nothing
#Without
The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.
- Alexander Pope
#Begins
#Difference
#Nice
#Virtue
#Where
Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.
- Alexander Pope
#Now
#Poor
#Rich
#Satan
#Wiser
Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
- Alexander Pope
#Alone
#Happiness
#Know
#Man
#Truth
Lo, what huge heaps of littleness around!
- Alexander Pope
#Around
#Huge
To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake.
- Alexander Pope
#Grow
#Make
#More
#Observer
#Which
A cherub's face, a reptile all the rest.
- Alexander Pope
#Face
#Rest
Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.
- Alexander Pope
#Back
#Dance
#Go
#Men
#Walk
The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
- Alexander Pope
#Mad
#Madmen
#Run
#Saint
#Worst
I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
- Alexander Pope
#Best
#End
#Find
#Madness
#Myself
And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.
- Alexander Pope
#Made
#New
#Something New
#Something
#Who
How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?
- Alexander Pope
#Keep
#Lose
#Love
#Sense
#Sin
A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.
- Alexander Pope
#Art
#Left
#Like
#Price
#Work
Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.
- Alexander Pope
#Desire
#Happy
#Man
#Never
#Want
Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
- Alexander Pope
#Behold
#Child
#Law
#Nature
#Straw
The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
- Alexander Pope
#Forgetting
#Forgot
#World
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
- Alexander Pope
#Last
#New
#Old
#Will
#Words
'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.
- Alexander Pope
#Be True
#Enough
#More
#Nice
#True
Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.
- Alexander Pope
#Applause
#Laws
#Like
#Own
#Sit
Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can.
- Alexander Pope
#Lie
#Man
#Mortal
#Never
#Women
For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.
- Alexander Pope
#Faith
#Fight
#Life
#Right
#Wrong
Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.
- Alexander Pope
#Gentle
#Man
#Manners
#Simplicity
#Wit
Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.
- Alexander Pope
#Always
#Find
#Kindness
#Man
#Show
Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
- Alexander Pope
#Angels
#Gods
#Men
#Would
Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!
- Alexander Pope
#Awake
#Brain
#Hidden
#Rise
#Thoughts
Gentle dullness ever loves a joke.
- Alexander Pope
#Dullness
#Ever
#Gentle
#Joke
#Loves
But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?
- Alexander Pope
#Blind
#Fate
#Former
#Future
#State
At ev'ry word a reputation dies.
- Alexander Pope
#Dies
#Reputation
#Word
Passions are the gales of life.
- Alexander Pope
#Life
#Passions
Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.
- Alexander Pope
#God
#Nature
#Road
#Through
#Up
Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be.
- Alexander Pope
#Piece
#See
#Shall
#Thinks
#Whoever
Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.
- Alexander Pope
#Grace
#Means
#Place
#Possible
#Wealth
Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
- Alexander Pope
#Common
#Education
#Just
#Mind
#Tree
But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.
- Alexander Pope
#Now
#Poor
#Rich
#Satan
#Wiser
True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.
- Alexander Pope
#Art
#Chance
#Dance
#Ease
#True
#Writing
If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.
- Alexander Pope
#Business
#Character
#Like
#Man
#Nobody
A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.
- Alexander Pope
#Business
#Curiosity
#Curious
#Nice
#Will
The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.
- Alexander Pope
#Ambition
#Patriot
#Patriotism
#Same
Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.
- Alexander Pope
#Genius
#Good
#Intelligence
#Sense
#Taste
Wit is the lowest form of humor.
- Alexander Pope
#Form
#Humor
#Lowest Form
#Lowest
#Wit
The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.
- Alexander Pope
#Passion
#Reason
#Ruling
#Still
#Will
Those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.
- Alexander Pope
#Dance
#Easiest
#Move
#Those
#Who
Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
- Alexander Pope
#Part
#See
#Tis
#Whole
#Wisdom
One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.
- Alexander Pope
#Art
#Genius
#Human
#Science
#Will
Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.
- Alexander Pope
#Days
#Men
#Praise
#Time
#Youth
Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel.
- Alexander Pope
#Best
#Gods
#Men
#Pride
#Rebel
An honest man's the noblest work of God.
- Alexander Pope
#God
#Honest
#Man
#Noblest
#Work
How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!
- Alexander Pope
#Cautious
#Doubt
#How
#Prone
#Wise
The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
- Alexander Pope
#Hang
#Hungry
#Judges
#Sign
#Soon
The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.
- Alexander Pope
#Eyes
#Glasses
#Look
#Man
#World
All nature is but art unknown to thee.
- Alexander Pope
#Art
#Nature
#Thee
#Unknown
Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.
- Alexander Pope
#Blessed
#Never
#Oppressed
#Someone
Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.
- Alexander Pope
#God
#Know
#Man
#Mankind
#Study
Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
- Alexander Pope
#Fools
#Pride
#Vice
Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.
- Alexander Pope
#How
#Reflection
#Remembrance
#Sense
Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.
- Alexander Pope
#Dogs
#Fidelity
#Friends
#Full
#More
There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.
- Alexander Pope
#Above
#Far
#Simplicity
#Which
#Wit
Health consists with temperance alone.
- Alexander Pope
#Alone
#Consists
#Health
#Temperance
The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.
- Alexander Pope
#Boil
#Egg
#Learned
#Roast
#Vulgar
Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.
- Alexander Pope
#Friend
#Know
#Make
#Trust
#Your
#Yourself
A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.
- Alexander Pope
#Dunce
#Dunces
#Wit
#Wits
They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.
- Alexander Pope
#Courtship
#Dream
#Marriage
#Wake
Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?
- Alexander Pope
#Decide
#Disagree
#Doubt
#Like
#Me
And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade.
- Alexander Pope
#After
#Lie
#Masquerade
#Tis
#Truth
And die of nothing but a rage to live.
- Alexander Pope
#Die
#Live
#Nothing
#Rage
Woman's at best a contradiction still.
- Alexander Pope
#Best
#Contradiction
#Still
#Woman
Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
- Alexander Pope
#Admire
#Approve
#Fools
#Men
#Sense
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
- Alexander Pope
#Angels
#Fear
#Fools
#Rush
#Where
Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.
- Alexander Pope
#Disguise
#Praise
#Satire
#Undeserved
The proper study of Mankind is Man.
- Alexander Pope
#Man
#Mankind
#Proper
#Study
'Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.
- Alexander Pope
#Common
#Education
#Just
#Mind
#Tree
Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
- Alexander Pope
#Best
#Few
#Gain
#Madness
#Many
Order is heaven's first law.
- Alexander Pope
#First Law
#First
#Heaven
#Law
#Order
The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.
- Alexander Pope
#Fool
#Happy
#He
#More
#Nature
All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
- Alexander Pope
#Body
#God
#Nature
#Soul
#Whole
#Whose
A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead.
- Alexander Pope
#Brain
#Feathers
#Heart
#Lead
The most positive men are the most credulous.
- Alexander Pope
#Credulous
#Men
#Most
#Positive
Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
- Alexander Pope
#Eyes
#Pretty
#Sight
#Soul
#Strike
Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
- Alexander Pope
#Education
#People
#Understand
#Will
No one should be ashamed to admit he is wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
- Alexander Pope
#Ashamed
#Today
#Words
#Wrong
#Yesterday
A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
- Alexander Pope
#Dangerous
#Deep
#Learning
#Spring
#Taste
Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
- Alexander Pope
#Act
#Honour
#Lies
#Well
#Your
Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.
- Alexander Pope
#Clouds
#God
#Mind
#Poor
#Wind
Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.
- Alexander Pope
#Air
#Care
#Man
#Nature
#Wish
On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
- Alexander Pope
#Life
#Ocean
#Passion
#Sail
#Vast
Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
- Alexander Pope
#Feel
#Hide
#Me
#Mercy
#See
On wrongs swift vengeance waits.
- Alexander Pope
#Swift
#Vengeance
#Waits
#Wrongs
Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!
- Alexander Pope
#God
#Laws
#Light
#Nature
#Night
Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
- Alexander Pope
#Men
#Must
#Taught
#Things
#Unknown
Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.
- Alexander Pope
#Act
#Honor
#Rise
#Shame
#Well
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