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Heaven From All Creatures Hides The Book Of Fate, All But The Page Prescrib'd, Their Present State.
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Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate,
All but the page prescrib'd, their present state.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
-- Essay on Man, Epistle i, Line 77
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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...
Order is heaven's first law; and this confest, Some are, and must be, greater than the rest, More rich, more wise
but who infers from hence That such are happier, shocks all common sense....
What can ennoble sots or slaves or cowards? Alas! not all the blood of all the Howards.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Man, Epistle iv, Line 215...
Virtuous and vicious every man must be,-- Few in the extreme, but all in the degree.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Man, Epistle ii, Line 231...
Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow; The rest is all but leather or prunello.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Man, Epistle iv, Line 203...
Honour and shame from no condition rise; Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Man, Epistle iv, Line 193...
That virtue only makes our bliss below, And all our knowledge is ourselves to know.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Man, Epistle iv, Line 397...
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...
Remembrance and reflection how allied! What thin partitions sense from thought divide!
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Man, Epistle i, Line 225...