Judge not of actions by their mere effect Dive to the center, and the cause detect. Great deeds from meanest springs may take their course, And smallest virtues from a mighty source.
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Good-Nature and Good-Sense must ever join;To err is Humane; to Forgive, Divine.
Alexander Pope
All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
Alexander Pope
The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.
Alexander Pope
How here he sipped, how there he plundered snug, And sucked all o'er, like an industrious bug.
Alexander Pope
Some people are commended for a giddy kind of good humor, which is no more a virtue than drunkenness.
Alexander Pope
The gen'ral order, since the whole began,
Is kept in nature, and is kept in man.
Alexander Pope
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