So vast is art, so narrow human wit.

Quote by Alexander Pope

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Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As to be hated needs but to...

Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As to be hated needs but to...

How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

An honest man's the noblest work of God.

An honest man's the noblest work of God.

To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake.

To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake.

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

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

Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to...

Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to...

Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.

Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.

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.

For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

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

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

At every trifle, scorn to take offence; that always shows great pride, or little sense

At every trifle, scorn to take offence; that always shows great pride, or little sense

Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?

Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?

And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements...

And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements...

Order is heaven's first law.

Order is heaven's first law.

Astrologers that future fates foreshow.

Astrologers that future fates foreshow.

So vast is art, so narrow human wit.

So vast is art, so narrow human wit.

The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.

The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.

Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.

Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.

Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.

Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.

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.