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To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake.

Alexander Pope


Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Alexander Pope


Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.

Alexander Pope


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

Alexander Pope


Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!

Alexander Pope


Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.

Alexander Pope


Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.

Alexander Pope


How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?

Alexander Pope


True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.

Alexander Pope


The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.

Alexander Pope