Alexander Pope Quotes, Nature Quotes, Atoms Quotes

See plastic Nature working to this end, The single atoms each to other tend, Attract, attracted to, the next in place Form'd and impell'd its neighbor to embrace.

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Is there a parson much bemused in beer, a maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, a clerk foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, who pens a stanza when he should engross?

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Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul; Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. Man, but for that no action could attend, And, but for this, were active to no end: Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot; Or, meteor-like, flame lawless thro' the void, Destroying others, by himself destroy'd.

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Then marble, soften'd into life, grew warm.

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First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same: Unerring nature, still divinely bright, One clear, unchanged, and universal light, Life, force, and beauty must to all impart, At once the source, and end, and test of art.

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What then remains, but well our power to use, And keep good-humor still whate'er we lose? And trust me, dear, good-humor can prevail, When airs, and flights, and screams, and scolding fail.

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The good must merit God's peculiar care; But who but God can tell us who they are?

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Fear not the anger of the wise to raise; Those best can bear reproof who merit praise.

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I as little fear that God will damn a man that has charity, as I hope that the priests can save one who has not.

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Tis all in vain to keep a constant pother About one vice and fall into another.

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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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Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?

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Our proper bliss depends on what we blame.

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A perfect judge will read each word of wit with the same spirit that its author writ.

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Whether the darken'd room to muse invite, Or whiten'd wall provoke the skew'r to write; In durance, exile, Bedlam, or the Mint, Like Lee or Budgel I will rhyme and print.

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In adamantine chains shall Death be bound, And Hell's grim tyrant feel th' eternal wound.

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There is a majesty in simplicity.

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The bookful blockhead ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head, With his own tongue still edifies his ears, And always list'ning to himself appears. All books he reads, and all he reads assails.

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One thought of thee puts all the pomp to flight; Priests, tapers, temples, swim before my sight.

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Wit is the lowest form of humor.

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