Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope

"True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learn'd to dance."
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"True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learn'd to dance."
Alexander Pope
"A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring."
Alexander Pope
"The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head."
Alexander Pope
"Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly."
Alexander Pope
"One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit."
Alexander Pope
"All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul."
Alexander Pope
"Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground."
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."
Alexander Pope
"All nature is but art unknown to thee."
Alexander Pope
"A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature."
Alexander Pope
"The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more."
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."
Alexander Pope
"Wit is the lowest form of humor."
Alexander Pope
"Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be blest."
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."
Alexander Pope
"If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business."
Alexander Pope
"We think our fathers fools so wise we grow Our wiser sons no doubt will think us so."
Alexander Pope
"Worth makes the man and want of it the fellow The rest is all but leather and prunello."
Alexander Pope
"True wit is Nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought but ne'er so well express'd."
Alexander Pope
"True wit is nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought but ne'er so well expressed."
Alexander Pope
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