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
A wise physician, skill'd our wounds to heal, is more than armies to the public weal. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
New, distant Scenes of endless Science rise: So pleas'd at first, the towring Alps we try,... — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink of it deeply, or taste it not, for shallow thoughts intoxicate the brain, and… — 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
Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven, And though no science, fairly worth the seven. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail! — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Know, Nature's children all divide her care, The fur that warms a monarch warmed a bear. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Of all affliction taught a lover yet, 'Tis true the hardest science to forget. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of Science by the tail. Index-learning is a term used to mock pretenders… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
To teach vain Wits that Science little known, T' admire Superior Sense, and doubt their own! — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Lo! the poor Indian! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind; His soul proud Science never… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Trace Science, then, with Modesty thy guide, First strip off all her equipage of Pride, Deduct what is but Vanity or Dress,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“Fir'd at first sight with what the Muse imparts, In fearless youth we tempt the heights of arts, While from the bounded… — 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
