Quote #108
Let not this weak, unknowing hand Presume Thy bolts to throw, And deal damnation round the land On each I judge Thy foe.
More from Alexander Pope
- And binding Nature fast in fate, Left free the human will.
- 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!
- Thou Great First Cause, least understood Who all my sense confined To know but this, that Thou art good And that myself am blind.
- Teach me to feel another's woe, To right the fault I see; That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me.
- Father of all! in every age, In every clime adored, By saint, by savage, and by sage, Jehovah, Jove, or Lord!
- Passions:are the gales of life:
- To be angry, is to revenge the fault of others upon ourselves.
- True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.