Tag: Alexander Pope
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Never elated when someone’s oppressed, never dejected when another one’s blessed.
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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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
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One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.
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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Lo, what huge heaps of littleness around!
Alexander Pope
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Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.
Alexander Pope
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A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.
Alexander Pope
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Passions are the gales of life.
Alexander Pope
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The most positive men are the most credulous.
Alexander Pope