Tag: Alexander Pope
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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
Alexander Pope
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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.
Alexander Pope
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Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne’er was, nor is, nor e’er shall be.
Alexander Pope
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Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.
Alexander Pope
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Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.
Alexander Pope
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Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
Alexander Pope
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Teach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
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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Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.
Alexander Pope
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A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.
Alexander Pope