Alexander Pope Quotes, Eye Quotes, Men Quotes

Why has not Man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, Man is not a Fly. Say what the use, were finer optics giv'n, T' inspect a mite, not comprehend the heav'n.

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There various news I heard of love and strife,Of peace and war, health, sickness, death, and life,Of loss and gain, of famine and of store,Of storms at sea, and travels on the shore,Of prodigies, and portents seen in air,Of fires and plagues, and stars with blazing hair,Of turns of fortune, changes in the state,The fall of favourites, projects of the great,Of aid mismanagements, taxations new:All neither wholly false, nor wholly true.

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Some people are commended for a giddy kind of good-humor, which is as much a virtue as drunkenness.

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There is a majesty in simplicity.

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Nor in the critic let the man be lost.

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Wine lets no lover unrewarded go.

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The scripture in times of disputes is like an open town in times of war, which serves in differently the occasions of both parties.

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Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare; And beauty draws us with a single hair.

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In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.

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What riches give us let us then inquire: Meat, fire, and clothes. What more? Meat, clothes, and fire. Is this too little?

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Is not absence death to those who love?

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We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.

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The world is a thing we must of necessity either laugh at or be angry at; if we laugh at it, they say we are proud; if we are angry at it, they say we are ill-natured.

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Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.

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True Wit is Nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd; Something whose truth convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. As shades more sweetly recommend the light, So modest plainness sets off sprightly wit.

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Every man has just as much vanity as he wants understanding.

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See Christians, Jews, one heavy sabbath keep, And all the western world believe and sleep.

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A brave man thinks no one his superior who does him an injury, for he has it then in his power to make himself superior to the other by forgiving it.

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The best way to prove the clearness of our mind, is by showing its faults; as when a stream discovers the dirt at the bottom, it convinces us of the transparency and purity of the water.

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What dire offence from am'rous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things.

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