Alexander Pope Quotes About Literature
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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.
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Wit is the lowest form of humor.
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Passions are the gales of life.
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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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The proper study of Mankind is Man.
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Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.
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Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.
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Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.
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Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.
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A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.
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'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.
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Never find fault with the absent.
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How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
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Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use.
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Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.
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Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.
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Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.
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A perfect judge will read each word of wit with the same spirit that its author writ.
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Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
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The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.
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But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.
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The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.
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