Alexander pope
Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.
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Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.
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There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.
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Health consists with temperance alone.
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Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.
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But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.
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The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.
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Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.
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