Alexander Pope Quotes About Nature
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Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!
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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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Some are bewildered in the maze of schools, And some made coxcombs nature meant but fools.
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Aurora now, fair daughter of the dawn, Sprinkled with rosy light the dewy lawn.
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[T]hro this Air, this Ocean, and this Earth, All Nature quick, and bursting into birth. Above, how high progressive life may go? Around how wide? how deep extend below? Vast Chain of Being! which from God began, Ethereal Essence, Spirit, Substance, Man, Beast, Bird, Fish, Insect! what no Eye can see, No Glass can reach! from Infinite to Thee! From Thee to Nothing.... From Natures Chain whatever Link you strike, Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike.... All are but parts of one stupendous Whole: Whose Body Nature is, and God the Soul.
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Vast chain of being! which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach, from infinite to Thee, From Thee to nothing.
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True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.
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Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use.
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The Physician, by the study and inspection of urine and ordure, approves himself in the science; and in like sort should our author accustom and exercise his imagination upon the dregs of nature.
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First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same: Unerring nature, still divinely bright, One clear, unchanged, and universal light, Life, force, and beauty must to all impart, At once the source, and end, and test of art.
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Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.
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Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
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Persons of genius, and those who are most capable of art, are always most fond of nature: as such are chiefly sensible, that all art consists in the imitation and study of nature.
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Know, Nature's children all divide her care, The fur that warms a monarch warmed a bear.
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See plastic Nature working to this end, The single atoms each to other tend, Attract, attracted to, the next in place Form'd and impell'd its neighbor to embrace.
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A tree is a nobler object than a prince in his coronation-robes.
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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