Alexander Pope - God Quotes

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When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.

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Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust, Yet cry, if man's unhappy, God's unjust.

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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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Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes,
Men would be angels, angels would be gods.

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

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Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night:
God said, "Let Newton be!" and all was light.

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Thus God and nature linked the gen'ral frame,
And bade self-love and social be the same.

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Say first, of God above or man below,
What can we reason but from what we know?

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Lo! the poor Indian, whose untutored mind
Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.

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In quibbles angel and archangel join,
And God the Father turns a school-divine.

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Yes, I am proud; I must be proud to see
Men not afraid of God, afraid of me.

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All are but parts of one stupendous whole,
Whose body, Nature is, and God the soul.

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Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes;
The glorious fault of Angels and of Gods.

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But see, the shepherds shun the noonday heat,
The lowing herds to murmuring brooks retreat,
To closer shades the panting flocks remove;
Ye gods! And is there no relief for love?

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We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.

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An atheist is but a mad, ridiculous derider of piety, but a hypocrite makes a sober jest of God and religion; he finds it easier to be upon his knees than to rise to a good action.

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The people's voice is odd,
It is, and it is not, the voice of God.

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Methinks God has punish'd the avaritious as he often punishes sinners, in their own way, in their very sin itself: the thirst of gain was their crime, that thirst continued became their punishment and ruin. As for the few who have the good fortune to remain with half of what they imagined they had (among whom is your humble servant), I would have them sensible of their felicity, and convinced of the truth of old Hesiod's maxim, who, after half his estate was swallowed by the Directors of those days, resolv'd, that half to be more than the whole.

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Ah! why, ye Gods! Should two and two make four?

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Hope humbly then; with trembling pinions soar;
Wait the great teacher, Death, and God adore;
What future bliss He gives not thee to know,
But gives that hope to be thy blessing now.

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Dear fatal name! rest ever unreveal'd, Nor pass these lips in holy silence seal'd. Hide it, my heart, within that close disguise, Where mixed with Gods, his lov'd idea lies: O write it not, my hand - the name appears Already written - wash it out, my tears! In vain lost Eloisa weeps and prays, Her heart still dictates, and her hand obeyes.

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On life's vast ocean diversely we sail, Reason the card, but passion is the gale; Nor God alone in the still calm we find, He mounts the storm, and walks upon the wind.

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Ye Gods! annihilate but space and time,
And make two lovers happy.

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Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? in every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part.

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Know then thyself, presume not God to scan;
The proper study of mankind is man.
Placed on this isthmus of a middle state,
A being darkly wise, and rudely great.

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