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If Parts Allure Thee, Think How Bacon Shin'd, The Wisest, Brightest, Meanest Of Mankind!
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If parts allure thee, think how Bacon shin'd,
The wisest, brightest, meanest of mankind!
Or ravish'd with the whistling of a name,
See Cromwell, damn'd to everlasting fame!
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
-- Essay on Man, Epistle iv, Line 281
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The soul's calm sunshine and the heartfelt joy.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Man, Epistle iv, Line 168...
Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Man, Epistle iv, Line 390...
Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Man, Epistle ii, Line 1...
T is but a part we see, and not a whole.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Man, Epistle i, Line 60...
Plays round the head, but comes not to the heart. One self-approving hour whole years outweighs Of stupid starers and of loud huzza
And more true joy Marcellus exil'd feels Than Caesar with a senate at his heels....
All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Man, Epistle i, Line 267...
Never elated when one man 's oppress'd; Never dejected while another 's bless'd.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Man, Epistle iv, Line 323...
A wit 's a feather, and a chief a rod; An honest man 's the noblest work of God.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Man, Epistle iv, Line 247...
Know then this truth (enough for man to know),-- "Virtue alone is happiness below.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Man, Epistle iv, Line 309...