Wit is the lowest form of humor.
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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 PopeHope travels through, nor quits us when we die.
Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
Health consists with temperance alone.
What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.
Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
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 …
For Forms of Government let fools contest whatever is best administered is best.
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Know then thyself, presume not God to scan The proper study of mankind is man.
Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.
Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.
An honest man's the noblest work of God.
Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!
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.
But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?
To err is human to forgive, divine.
For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.
'Tis education forms the common mind just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.
Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.
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 …