One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.
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There is nothing that is meritorious but virtue and friendship and indeed friendship itself is only a part of virtue.Alexander Pope
No creature smarts so little as a fool.
Alexander Pope
Nature stands check'd; Religion disapproves;
Ev'n thou art cold--yet Eloisa loves.
Alexander Pope
Yet not to earth's contracted span
Thy goodness let me bound,
Or think thee Lord alone of man,
When thousand worlds are round.
Alexander Pope
And he, whose fustian's so sublimely bad, It is not poetry, but prose run mad.
Alexander Pope
Whose heards with milk, whose fields with bread,
Whose flocks supply him with attire,
Whose trees in summer yield him shade,
In winter fire.
Alexander Pope
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