3 December 2020 Alexander Pope True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those who move easiest have learned to dance.
3 December 2020 Alexander Pope A little learning is a dangerous thing Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
3 December 2020 Alexander Pope Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature’s God.
3 December 2020 Alexander Pope 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.
3 December 2020 Alexander Pope A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.
3 December 2020 Alexander Pope Extremes in nature equal ends produce In man they join to some mysterious use.
3 December 2020 Alexander Pope If a man’s character is to be abused there’s nobody like a relative to do the business.
3 December 2020 Alexander Pope For Forms of Government let fools contest whatever is best administered is best.
3 December 2020 Alexander Pope Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.
3 December 2020 Alexander Pope 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.
3 December 2020 Alexander Pope Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree’s inclined.
3 December 2020 Alexander Pope One science only will one genius fit so vast is art, so narrow human wit.
3 December 2020 Alexander Pope A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.
3 December 2020 Alexander Pope All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
3 December 2020 Alexander Pope Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
3 December 2020 Alexander Pope But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?
3 December 2020 Alexander Pope Know then thyself, presume not God to scan The proper study of mankind is man.
3 December 2020 Alexander Pope Nature and nature’s laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!
3 December 2020 Alexander Pope Behold the child, by Nature’s kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
3 December 2020 Alexander Pope 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.
3 December 2020 Alexander Pope The learned is happy, nature to explore The fool is happy, that he knows no more.
3 December 2020 Alexander Pope 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.
3 December 2020 Alexander Pope 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.
