First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same: Unerring nature, still divinely bright, One… — 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
Poets like painters, thus unskilled to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Nature made every fop to plague his brother, Just as one beauty mortifies another. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Ask for what end the heavenly bodies shine, Earth for whose use? Pride answers, 'Tis for mine For me kind nature wakes… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw. — 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
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
Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise; Laugh where we must, be candid… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
What nature wants, commodious gold bestows; 'Tis thus we cut the bread another sows. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The Physician, by the study and inspection of urine and ordure, approves himself in the science; and in like sort should our… — 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
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
A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature. — 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
Oh, sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise. By mountains pil'd on mountains to the skies? Heav'n still with laughter the… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed. — 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
Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise; My footstool earth, my canopy the skies. — 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
Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night. God said, 'Let Newton be!' and all was light. — 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
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
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 Image
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 Image
Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Like following life through creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment you detect. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
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 Image
Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd and make the learned smile. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
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 Image
I am satisfied to trifle away my time, rather than let it stick by me. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
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 Image
