Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But l... -Alexander Pope

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Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.

Alexander Pope , Poet
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Alexander Pope was an English poet, essayist, and translator who is regarded as one of the greatest poets of the 18th century. He is known for his satirical and witty works, such as "The Rape of the Lock" and his translation of Homer's "Iliad." Pope's poetry demonstrated his mastery of the English language and his skill in crafting elegant and memorable verses. His works continue to be celebrated for their literary merit and their lasting influence on English literature.

Alexander Pope Quotes to Explore

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease....
Wit is the lowest form of humor....
The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave....
Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot....
The most positive men are the most credulous....
Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die....
Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be blest....
Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind....
Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!...
Health consists with temperance alone....

Nature Quotes to Explore

I mean, you always want everybody to pat you on the back and tell you you're wonderful every time you do something; I think that's human nature....
There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping o...
Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God....
For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all....
The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also....
Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature....
Each piece, or part, of the whole of nature is always merely an approximation to the complete truth, or the complete truth so far as we know it. In fa...
To such an extent does nature delight and abound in variety that among her trees there is not one plant to be found which is exactly like another; and...
To conquer nature is, in effect, to remove all natural barriers and human norms and to substitute artificial, fabricated equivalents for natural proce...
Man was nature's mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake....