English - Poet | May 21, 1688 - May 30, 1744
Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.
Alexander Pope
NatureGodRoadLooksUpSlave
Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
BestMadnessGainManyFew
Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
NewOldFirstLastWhomTried
Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use.
NatureManMysteriousEqualJoin
Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
MenAngelsWouldGods
And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.
NewSomethingWhoMadeHeardToo
Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
HappinessTruthAloneManEnough
Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.
WalkMenDanceBackGoMust
One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.
ScienceArtGeniusWillHumanWit
Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.
LittleOwnSitGiveLawsLike
For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.
LifeFaithFightWrongRightWhose
Gentle dullness ever loves a joke.
GentleJokeEverDullnessLoves
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