All nature is but art unknown to thee.


Alexander Pope

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One whom it is easier to hate, but still easier to quote--Alexander Pope.
AUGUSTINE BIRRELL
To err is human; to forgive, divine. -Alexander Pope.
ALEXANDER POPE
Great wits are to madness near allied
And thin partitions do their bounds divide.
JOHN DRYDEN
Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine;
Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine!
ALEXANDER POPE
All art is but imitation of nature.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA
All art is but imitation of nature.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA (SENECA THE YOUNGER)
All art is but imitation of nature.
SENECA
He never hears the truth about himself by not wishing to hear it." Pope Alexander
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN
Pope had perhaps the judgment of Dryden; but Dryden certainly wanted the diligence of Pope.
SAMUEL JOHNSON
I shall write a book some day about the appropriateness of names. Geoffrey Chaucer has a ribald ring...
JAMES JOYCE
But since the world, which thou art to strive against, is not without thee, but within thee, it foll...
JOHANN ARNDT
All art is an imitation of nature.
SENECA
All art is an imitation of nature.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)
Study what thou art Whereof thou art a part What thou knowest of this art This is really what thou a...
WILLIAM DRUMMOND
I am thee and thou art me and all of one is the other.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Art is man's nature: Nature is God's art.
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY
Art is man's nature: Nature is God's art.
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY
Art is Man's nature. Nature is God's art.
JAMES BAILEY
Art is man's nature; nature is God's art
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY
Some cursed fraud Of enemy hath beguiled thee, yet unknown, And me with thee hath ruined.
JOHN MILTON
Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness; but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with r...
AKHENATON AKHENATON
Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness; but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with r...
AKHENATON
The true way to be humble is not to stoop till thou art smaller than thyself, but to stand at thy re...
PHILLIPS BROOKS
Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art.
SAMUEL DANIEL
Sympathy is a virtue unknown in nature.
PAUL EIPPER
All the world is queer save thee and me, and even thou art a little queer.
ROBERT OWEN
[Per Alexander Pope (1734):] Vice is a monster of so frightful mien/As to be hated, needs but to be ...
MAE WEST
Now nature is not at variance with art, nor art with nature; they being both the servants of his pro...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE
Now nature is not at variance with art, nor art with nature; they being both the servants of his pr...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE
All the world old is queer save thee and me, and even thou art a little queer
ROBERT OWEN
All the world old is queer save thee and me, and even thou art a little queer.
ROBERT OWEN
Everything in art is but a copy of nature.
SIR WALTER SCOTT
All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE
All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE
All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.
THOMAS BROWNE
When thou art quiet and silent, then art thou as God was before nature and creature; thou art that w...
JACOB BOEHME
Not without art, but yet to Nature true.
CHARLES CHURCHILL
You don't have to be Pope Julius to have great art in your house.
LYNDA RESNICK
Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted.
EMILY DICKINSON
Glass antique! 'twixt thee and Nell Draw we here a parallel! She, like thee, was forced to be...
LAMAN BLANCHARD
In this world, with thy earthly life, thou art under heaven, stars, and elements, also under hell an...
JAKOB BOHME
It is human nature to concoct explanations to fill the great void of the unknown.
RAE CARSON
There is a joy which is not given to the ungodly, but to those who love Thee for Thine own sake, who...
WILLIAM LAW
O, Thou precious Lord Jesus Christ, we do adore Thee with all our hearts. Thou art Lord of all.
CHARLES SPURGEON
Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.
STANISLAW JERZY LEC
Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.
GARSON KANIN
Thou art standing all this while at the door of eternity, and death is waiting to open the door, and...
RICHARD BAXTER
Dance is the art closest to nature.
MARTY RUBIN
This is the merit and distinction of art: to be more real than reality, to be not nature but nature&...
WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY
I'll give thee armor to keep off that word; Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy, To comfort the...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
PEACE IS THE OBJECTIVE TO WAR, BUT THE BLOOD RUNNETH STILL
NATALIE URQUIETA
Loveliest of women! heaven is in thy soul, Beauty and virtue shine forever round thee, Bright...
JOSEPH ADDISON
"Not to admire, is all the art I know (Plain truth, dear Murray, needs few flowers of speech) ...
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON)
For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
JOHN DRYDEN
I'm sure that the average person thought we would fold up right there. That's all everyone thinks we...
CHUCK DARBY
What is art? Nature concentrated.
HONORE DE BALZAC
Bless thee, Bottom! bless thee! thou art translated. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act iii. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend / With thee; but, sir, so what I plead is just. / Why do si...
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS
When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.
MARCUS AURELIUS
If thou art master to thyself, circumstances shall harm thee little
MARTIN FRAQUHAR TUPPER
Music resembles poetry, in each
Are nameless graces which no methods teach,
And which a ma...
ALEXANDER POPE
Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee! ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Nature is the art of God.
DANTE ALIGHIERI
Nature is the art of God
DANTE ALIGHIERI
Thou art not for the earth, nor for the Heaven the world is for thee, thou art not for the world.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL
Open spaces sing to my heart
of the art of nature and the nature of art.
JAY WOODMAN
Is this a dagger which I see before me,
The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
To me [the pope] was the incarnation of all that is capitalism.
MEHMET AGCA
Art not only imitates nature, but also completes its deficiencies.
ARISTOTLE
It was conferred on me for my art, not for my being Jewish -- for my art and my service to this pope...
GILBERT LEVINE
Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.
VIRGINIA WOOLF
Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
PAUL CEZANNE
For the nature of women is closely allied to art
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
Thou seest, thou wicked varlet, now, what’s come upon thee: thou art to continue, now, thou varlet...
LORNA SAGE
Holy, holy, holy! all the saints adore Thee, / Casting down their golden crowns around the glassy se...
BISHOP HEBER
When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.
MARCUS AURELIUS
Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle.
JOHN UPDIKE
Healing, Papa would tell me, is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.
W. H. AUDEN
'Healing,'' Papa would tell me, ''is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'
W. H. AUDEN
Evolution is the art of nature. Revolution is the art of science. Simplicity is the art of the futur...
EPHDAN
Feast of John and Charles Wesley, Priests, Poets, Teachers, 1791 & 1788 I know Thee, Saviour, Who T...
CHARLES WESLEY
For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, who art as black as hell, as dark as night.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright,
Who art as black as hell, as dark as night.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, who art as black as hell, as dark as night.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Those that be near, and those that be far from thee, shall mock thee, which art infamous and much ve...
BIBLE
Nature is beautiful because it looks like Art; and Art can only be called beautiful if we are consci...
IMMANUEL KANT
All's well that carries on well
AMIT ABRAHAM
Lord, since Thou hast taken from me all that I had of Thee, yet of Thy grace leave me the gift which...
MECHTHILD OF MAGDEBURG
Physics is nothing but the ABC's. Nature is an equation with an unknown, a Hebrew word which is ...
JOHANN GEORG HAMANN
Nature does not bestow virtue; to be good is an art.
SENECA
Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to t...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
I was taught that you can't be a healthy individual without art, music, or nature in your life. ...
MICHAEL HORSE
Sleep, to the homeless thou art home; the friendless find in thee a friend
EBENEZER ELLIOTT
Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
The mission of art is to represent nature not to imitate her.
WILLIAM MORRIS HUNT
For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright,
Who art as black as hell, as dark as night...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
But sure there is need of other remedies than dreaming, a weak contention of art against nature.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

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Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
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The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be blest.
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So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.
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How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
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And die of nothing but a rage to live.
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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
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Never find fault with the absent.
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A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead.
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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It is part of the cure to wish to be cured. [Lat., Pars sanitatis velle sanari fruit.]
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The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.
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'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.
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How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tale.
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Reason, however able, cool at best, Cares not for service, or but serves when prest, Stays til...
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Say first, of God above or man below, What can we reason but from what we know?
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A man should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is...
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Lely on animated canvas stole The sleepy eye, that spoke the melting soul.
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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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Wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
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If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a midd...
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But if We have such another victory, we are undone.
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The heart resolves this matter in a trice, "Men only feel the smart, but not the vice."
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Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast; But shall the dignity of vice be lost?
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Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.
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Get place and wealth, if possible, with grace; If not, by any means get wealth and place.
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One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.
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Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others.
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Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill.
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But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.
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Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
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Most women have no characters at all.
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Most authors steal their works, or buy.
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Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learned to dance. 'T...
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Fix'd like a plan on his peculiar spot, to draw nutrition, propagate, and rot.
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They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.
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Know then thyself; presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.
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'Tis with our judgments as our watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own.
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Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne.
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Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
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Honor and shame from no condition rise; Act well your part, there all the honor lies.
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Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
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Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd; if right, I kiss'd the rod.
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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.
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In Words, as Fashions, the same Rule will hold;
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Be not t...
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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'Tis education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclin'd.
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Others import yet nobler arts from France, Teach kings to fiddle, and make senates dance.
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In Faith and Hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity.
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A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.
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To err is human, to forgive, divine.
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Sure of their qualities and demanding praise, more go to ruined fortunes than are raised.
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At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.
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Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men.
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Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.
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Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
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Men dream of courtship, but in wedlock wake.
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The ruling passion, be it what it will, The ruling passion conquers reason still.
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Passions are the gales of life.
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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
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All seems infected that the infected spy,
As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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For virtue's self may too much zeal be had; the worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
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Die and endow a college or a cat.
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Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.
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True wit is nature to advantage dressed, what oft was thought, but never so well expressed.
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Wit is the lowest form of humor.
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Curse on all laws, but those that love has made.
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In lazy apathy let stoics boast
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You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there's no body at home.
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Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.
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True disputants are like true sportsman: their whole delight is in the pursuit.
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When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last.
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I am his Highness dog at Kew; pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?
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Hither the heroes and nymphs resort,
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Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
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What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.
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I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.
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Health consists with temperance alone.
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Act well your part; there all honor lies.
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An honest man's the noblest work of God.
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Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.
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For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.
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And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.
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We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.
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The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
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Many people are capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
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How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?
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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
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The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
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It is with our judgments as with our watches: no two go just alike, yet each believes his own.
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Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer,
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By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned; By strangers honored, and by strangers mourned.
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To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.
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Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.
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An excuse is worse than a lie, for an excuse is a lie, guarded.
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Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel?
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Why has not man a microscopic eye? For the plain reason man is not a fly.
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Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
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On wrongs swift vengeance waits.
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Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly!
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Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.
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The starving chemist in his golden views Supremely blest.
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Here Ceres' gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper's hand.
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In cold December fragrant chaplets blow, And heavy harvests nod beneath the snow.
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The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.
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Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute.
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Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; Bliss is the same in subject or in king.
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To Kerke the narre, from God more farre.
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Who builds a church to God, and not to Fame, Will never mark the marble with his Name.
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No silver saints, by dying misers giv'n, Here brib'd the rage of ill-requited heav'n; But such...
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On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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There goes a saying, and 'twas shrewdly said, Old fish at table, but young flesh in bed.
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Ask you what provocation I have had? The strong antipathy of good to bad.
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Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.
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The blest to-day is as completely so, As who began a thousand years ago.
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Our proper bliss depends on what we blame.
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Hear how the birds, on ev'ry blooming spray, With joyous musick wake the dawning day.
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Ye flowers that drop, forsaken by the spring, Ye birds that, left by summer, cease to sing, Ye...
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Where round some mould'ring tow'r pale ivy creeps, And low-brow'd rocks hang nodding o'er the deep...
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Accept a miracle; instead of wit,-- See two dull lines by Stanhope's pencil writ.
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I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
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In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere and rush into the skies. P...
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A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
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Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way.
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Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand, They rave, recite, and madden round the land.
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Hence the fool's paradise, the statesman's scheme, The air-built castle, and the golden dream, ...
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In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true From pois'nous herbs extracts the healing dew?
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What dire Offence from am'rous Causes springs, What mighty Contests rise from trivial Things.
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No question is ever settled Until it is settled right.
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See Christians, Jews, one heavy sabbath keep, And all the western world believe and sleep.
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Where London's column, pointing at the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts the head and lies.
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One science only will one genius fit, So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
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True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one ...
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Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
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Pleas'd to the last he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.
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Judges and senates have been bought for gold; Esteem and love were never to be sold.
ALEXANDER POPE
Alas! the small discredit of a bribe Scarce hurts the lawyer, but undoes the scribe.
ALEXANDER POPE
How glowing guilt exalts the keen delight!
ALEXANDER POPE
Obliged by hunger and request of friends.
ALEXANDER POPE
Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause.
ALEXANDER POPE
The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, And wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
ALEXANDER POPE
What beck'ning ghost along the moonlight shade Invites my steps, and points to yonder glade?
ALEXANDER POPE
Soft o'er the shrouds aerial whispers breathe, That seemed but zephyrs to the train beneath.
ALEXANDER POPE
And soften'd sounds along the waters die: Smooth flow the waves, the zephyrs gently play.
ALEXANDER POPE
Lull'd by soft zephyrs thro' the broken pane.
ALEXANDER POPE
Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows.
ALEXANDER POPE
The balmy zephyrs, silent since her death, Lament the ceasing of a sweeter breath.
ALEXANDER POPE
I have more zeal than wit.
ALEXANDER POPE
Zeal then, not charity, became the guide.
ALEXANDER POPE
The doubtful beam long nods from side to side.
ALEXANDER POPE
Not chaos-like together crush'd and bruis'd, But, as the world, harmoniously confused: Where o...
ALEXANDER POPE
Order is Heaven's first law; and this confess, Some are and must be greater than the rest.
ALEXANDER POPE
For fools admire, but me of sense approve.
ALEXANDER POPE
Blessed is he who expects nothing for he shall never be disappointed.
ALEXANDER POPE
At length corruption, like a general flood (So long by watchful ministers withstood), Shall de...
ALEXANDER POPE
You purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing but a rage to live.
ALEXANDER POPE
One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too curious in observing...
ALEXANDER POPE
Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow; The rest is all but leather and prunello.
ALEXANDER POPE
Fine by defect, and delicately weak.
ALEXANDER POPE
Heaven forming each on other to depend, A master, or a servant, or a friend, Bids each on othe...
ALEXANDER POPE