Nature Quotes by Alexander Pope

A tree is a nobler object than a prince in his coronation-robes.

— Alexander Pope

All nature's diff'rence keeps all nature's peace.

— Alexander Pope

All nature is but art unknown to thee.

— Alexander Pope

And binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will.

— Alexander Pope

The life of a wit is a warfare upon earth.

— Alexander Pope

Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise; My footstool earth, my canopy the skies.

— Alexander Pope

Tis thus the mercury of man is fix'd, Strong grows the virtue with his nature mix'd.

— Alexander Pope

For critics, as they are birds of prey, have ever a natural inclination to carrion.

— Alexander Pope

What nature wants, commodious gold bestows; 'Tis thus we cut the bread another sows.

— Alexander Pope

I begin where most people end, with a full conviction of the emptiness of all sorts of ambition, and the unsatisfactory nature…

— Alexander Pope

True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.

— Alexander Pope

Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.

— Alexander Pope

Nature made every fop to plague his brother, Just as one beauty mortifies another.

— Alexander Pope

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

All nature is but art, unknown to thee; All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All…

— Alexander Pope

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

The Physician, by the study and inspection of urine and ordure, approves himself in the science; and in like sort should our…

— Alexander Pope

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

The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes…

— Alexander Pope

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

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

“A perfect Judge will read each work of Wit With the same spirit that its author writ; Survey the WHOLE, nor seek…

— Alexander Pope

“Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found. False Eloquence, like the Prismatic…

— Alexander Pope

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

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

[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

“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

A king is a mortal god on earth, unto whom the living God hath lent his own name as a great honour;…

— Alexander Pope

“Homer is universally allowed to have had the greatest Invention of any writer whatever. The praise of judgment Virgil has justly contested…

— Alexander Pope

Mark what unvary'd laws preserve each state, Laws wise as Nature, and as fixed as Fate.

— Alexander Pope

Two purposes in human nature rule. Self- love to urge, and reason to restrain.

— Alexander Pope

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

— Alexander Pope

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

— Alexander Pope

All nature mourns, the skies relent in showers; hushed are the birds, and closed the drooping flowers.

— Alexander Pope

My garden, like my life, seems to me every year to want correction and require alternation.

— Alexander Pope

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

— Alexander Pope

Know, Nature's children all divide her care, The fur that warms a monarch warmed a bear.

— Alexander Pope

Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.

— Alexander Pope

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

— Alexander Pope

Thus God and nature linked the gen'ral frame, And bade self-love and social be the same.

— Alexander Pope