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A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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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.
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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.
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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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Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
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But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.
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Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use.
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Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
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For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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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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Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.
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Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.
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How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
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How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!
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In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
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Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.
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Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.
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Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
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Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!
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Never find fault with the absent.
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Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.
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On life's vast ocean diversely we sail, Reason the card, but passion is the gale.
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Order is heaven's first law.
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Passions are the gales of life.
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Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.
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Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel.
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Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.
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Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.
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So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
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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.
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.
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The err is human, to forgive divine.
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The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.
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The proper study of Mankind is Man.
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The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.
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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.
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They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.
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'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.
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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake.
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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those who move easiest have learned to dance.
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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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What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.
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Wit is the lowest form of humor.
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Category: Literature Quotes
Occupation: Poet
Date of Birth: May 21, 1688
Date of Death: May 30, 1744
Nationality: English





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