Quote #106
Thou Great First Cause, least understood Who all my sense confined To know but this, that Thou art good And that myself am blind.
More from Alexander Pope
- Father of all! in every age, In every clime adored, By saint, by savage, and by sage, Jehovah, Jove, or Lord!
- And binding Nature fast in fate, Left free the human will.
- To be angry, is to revenge the fault of others upon ourselves.
- Let not this weak, unknowing hand Presume Thy bolts to throw, And deal damnation round the land On each I judge Thy foe.
- The most positive men are the most credulous:
- If I am right, Thy grace import Still in the right to stay; If I am wrong, oh teach my heart To find that better way!
- Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
- Teach me to feel another's woe, To right the fault I see; That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me.