A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.
For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.
In pride in reas'ning pride our error lies All quit their sphere and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the bless'd abodes Men would be angels angels would be gods.
A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.
And all who told it added something new And all who heard it made enlargements too.
Happy the man, whose wish and careA few paternal acres bound,Content to breathe his native airIn his own ground.
Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
True wit is Nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought but ne'er so well express'd.
How happy is the blameless vestal's lot! The world forgetting by the world forgot.
Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.
Eve left Adam to meet the Devil in private.
Hope springs eternal in the human breast.
All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
Hunger is insolent and will be fed.
For I who hold sage Homer's rule the best Welcome the coming speed the going guest.
For when success a lover's toil attends,Few ask, if fraud or force attain'd his ends
Then say not man's imperfect, Heav'n in fault;. Say rather, man's as perfect as he ought.
Yes, I am proud; I must be proud to seeMen not afraid of God afraid of me.
Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.