Alexander Pope - Sense Quotes

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How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense,
And love th'offender, yet detest th'offence?

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Good-nature and good-sense must ever join;
To err is human, to forgive, divine.

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For, as blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.

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Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense.

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In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true
From pois'nous herbs extracts the healing dew?

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To be, contents his natural desire,
He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire;
But thinks, admitted to that equal sky,
His faithful dog shall bear him company.
Go wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense
Weigh thy opinion against Providence.

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Still follow sense, of ev'ry art the soul, Parts answering parts shall slide into a whole.

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Fool, 'tis in vain from wit to wit to roam: Know, sense, like charity, begins at home.

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Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, and fills up all the mighty void of sense.

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Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven, And though no science, fairly worth the seven.

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Be niggards of advice on no pretense; For the worst avarice is that of sense.

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Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words,-health, peace, and competence.

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See skulking Truth to her old cavern fled, Mountains of Casuistry heap'd o'er her head! Philosophy, that lean'd on Heav'n before, Shrinks to her second cause, and is no more. Physic of Metaphysic begs defence, And Metaphysic calls for aid on Sense! See Mystery to Mathematics fly!

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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance,
As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence,
The sound must seem an echo to the sense.

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At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.

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Let Sporus tremble — "What? that thing of silk, Sporus, that mere white curd of ass's milk? Satire or sense, alas! can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?"

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Words are like leaves; and where they most abound,
Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found.

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Thou Great First Cause, least understood
Who all my sense confined
To know but this, that Thou art good
And that myself am blind.

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To teach vain Wits that Science little known,
T' admire Superior Sense, and doubt their own!

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'Satire or sense, alas! can Sporus feel?
Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?'
Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings,
This painted child of dirt that stinks and stings.
Of Lord Hervey

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To endeavour to work upon the vulgar with fine sense, is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.

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