To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake.
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Content if hence th' unlearn'd their wants may view, The learn'd reflect on what before they knew.Alexander Pope
How often hope, despair, resent, regret,
Conceal, disdain--do all things but forget.
Alexander Pope
Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Alexander Pope
Some people are commended for a giddy kind of good humor, which is no more a virtue than drunkenness.
Alexander Pope
A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.
Alexander Pope
The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.
Alexander Pope
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