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Eye Nature's Walks, Shoot Folly As It Flies, And Catch The Manners Living As They Rise
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Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies,
And catch the manners living as they rise;
Laugh where we must, be candid where we can,
But vindicate the ways of God to man.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
-- Essay on Man, Epistle i, Line 13
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Say first, of God above or man below, What can we reason but from what we know?
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Man, Epistle i, Line 17...
T is but a part we see, and not a whole.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Man, Epistle i, Line 60...
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...
Why has not man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason,--man is not a fly.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Man, Epistle i, Line 193...
Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Man, Epistle i, Line 87...
On life's vast ocean diversely we sail, Reason the card, but passion is the gale.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Man, Epistle ii, Line 107...
Slave to no Sect. who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Man, Epistle iv, Line 331...
Ask where 's the North? At York 't is on the Tweed
In Scotland at the Orcades; and there, At Greenland, Zembla, or the Lord knows where....
Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise; My footstool earth, my canopy the skies.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Man, Epistle i, Line 139...