While pensive poets painful vigils keep - Sleepless themselves to give their readers sleep

Quote by Alexander Pope

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Never find fault with the absent.

Never find fault with the absent.

Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore...

Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore...

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those who move easiest have...

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those who move easiest have...

Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius...

Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius...

They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.

They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.

To err is human, to forgive, divine.

To err is human, to forgive, divine.

All nature is but art, unknown to thee; all chance, direction, which thou canst not...

All nature is but art, unknown to thee; all chance, direction, which thou canst not...

Order is heaven's first law.

Order is heaven's first law.

The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a...

The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a...

Passions are the gales of life.

Passions are the gales of life.

The proper study of Mankind is Man.

The proper study of Mankind is Man.

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or...

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or...

Those move easiest who have learn'd to dance

Those move easiest who have learn'd to dance

Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.

Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.

Wit is the lowest form of humor.

Wit is the lowest form of humor.

Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in...

Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in...

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look...

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look...

Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.

Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.

Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.

One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.