Quote #15
Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night: God said, 'Let Newton be!' and all was light.
More from Alexander Pope
- I am his Highness' dog at Kew; Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?
- The flying Rumours gather'd as they roll'd, Scarce any Tale was sooner heard than told; And all who told it, added something new, And all w…
- Histories are more full of Examples of the Fidelity of dogs than of Friends.
- Nor Fame I slight, nor her favors call; She comes unlooked for, if she comes at all.
- Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies, And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.
- Unblemish'd let me live, or die unknown; O grant an honest fame, or grant me none!
- The mouse that always trusts to one poor hole Can never be a mouse of any soul.
- How vast a memory has Love!