Author

Alexander Pope

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“Wit is the lowest form of humor.”— Alexander Pope
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“Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.”— Alexander Pope
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“So vast is art, so narrow human wit.”— Alexander Pope
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“What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.”— Alexander Pope
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“Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.”— Alexander Pope
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“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
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“For Forms of Government let fools contest whatever is best administered is best.”— Alexander Pope
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“The learned is happy, nature to explore;
The fool is happy, that he knows no more.”— Alexander Pope
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“All nature is but art unknown to thee.”— Alexander Pope
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“If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.”— Alexander Pope
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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.”— Alexander Pope
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“Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.”— Alexander Pope
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“Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.”— Alexander Pope
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“For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.”— Alexander Pope
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“To err is human to forgive, divine.”— Alexander Pope
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“But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?”— Alexander Pope
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“A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.”— Alexander Pope
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“All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.”— Alexander Pope
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“Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!”— Alexander Pope
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“An honest man's the noblest work of God.”— Alexander Pope
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“Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.”— Alexander Pope
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“Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.”— Alexander Pope
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“Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.”— Alexander Pope
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“Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.”— Alexander Pope
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“The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.”— Alexander Pope