A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.
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Alexander Pope
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About Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope was an English poet, translator, and satirist of the Enlightenment era who is considered one of the most prominent English poets of the early 18th century. An exponent of Augustan literature, Pope is best known for his satirical and discursive poetry including An Essay on Criticism (1711), The Rape of the Lock (1712–1717), The Dunciad (1728–1743), and for his translations of Homer.
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Alexander PopeAn honest man's the noblest work of God.
Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can.
Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade.
Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.
One science only will one genius fit so vast is art, so narrow human wit.
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The most positive men are the most credulous.
Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
Extremes in nature equal ends produce In man they join to some mysterious use.
Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.
All nature is but art unknown to thee.
Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!
The learned is happy, nature to explore The fool is happy, that he knows no more.
All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.
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 …
The most positive men are the most credulous.
Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.
Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.
No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.
A little learning is a dangerous thing Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.