True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
I begin where most people end, with a full conviction of the emptiness of all sorts of ambition, and the unsatisfactory nature… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Nature made every fop to plague his brother, Just as one beauty mortifies another. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Mark what unvary'd laws preserve each state, Laws wise as Nature, and as fixed as Fate. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Two purposes in human nature rule. Self- love to urge, and reason to restrain. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
For critics, as they are birds of prey, have ever a natural inclination to carrion. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
All Nature is but art, unknown to thee All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
See plastic Nature working to this end, The single atoms each to other tend, Attract, attracted to, the next in place Form'd… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
A perfect Judge will read each work of Wit With the same spirit that its author writ: Survey the Whole, nor seek… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
To be, contents his natural desire, He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire; But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain Here earth and water seem to strive again, Not chaos-like together crushed and… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
All nature is but art, unknown to thee; All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
True Wit is Nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd; Something whose truth convinced at sight… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Presumptuous Man! the reason wouldst thou find,Why form'd so weak, so little, and so blind?First, if thou canst, the harder reason guess,Why… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found. False Eloquence, like the Prismatic… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Hope springs eternal in the human breast; Man never Is, but always To be Blest. The soul, uneasy, and confin'd from home,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“A perfect Judge will read each work of Wit With the same spirit that its author writ; Survey the WHOLE, nor seek… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“So when the faithful pencil has design'd Some bright idea of the master's mind, Where a new world leaps out at his… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
A king is a mortal god on earth, unto whom the living God hath lent his own name as a great honour;… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
[T]hro this Air, this Ocean, and this Earth, All Nature quick, and bursting into birth. Above, how high progressive life may go?… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“Homer is universally allowed to have had the greatest Invention of any writer whatever. The praise of judgment Virgil has justly contested… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise; My footstool earth, my canopy the skies. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Tis thus the mercury of man is fix'd, Strong grows the virtue with his nature mix'd. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
What nature wants, commodious gold bestows; 'Tis thus we cut the bread another sows. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Aurora now, fair daughter of the dawn, Sprinkled with rosy light the dewy lawn. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night. God said, 'Let Newton be!' and all was light. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
True wit is nature to advantage dressed, what oft was thought, but never so well expressed. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Some are bewildered in the maze of schools, And some made coxcombs nature meant but fools. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Thus God and nature linked the gen'ral frame, And bade self-love and social be the same. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
How do we know that we have a right to kill creatures that we are so little above, as dogs, for our curiosity or… — Alexander Pope Copy Share
To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart; To make mankind, in conscious virtue… — Alexander Pope Copy Share
Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well. — Alexander Pope Copy Share
For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest. — Alexander Pope Copy Share
Like following life through creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment you detect. — Alexander Pope Copy Share
When two people compliment each other with the choice of anything, each of them generally gets that which he likes least. — Alexander Pope Copy Share
Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd and make the learned smile. — Alexander Pope Copy Share
She went from opera, park, assembly, play, To morning walks, and prayers three hours a day. To part her time 'twixt reading and bohea,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share
The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is, that it gives one the greater freedom of playing the… — Alexander Pope Copy Share
Then say not Man's imperfect,Heav'n in fault; Say rather, Man's as perfect ashe ought: — Alexander Pope Copy Share
First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same: Unerring nature, still divinely bright, One clear, unchanged,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share
Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me? — Alexander Pope Copy Share
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