Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless,…

Alexander Pope
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Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve. ✨ Alexander Pope (1751). The works of Alexander Pope. With his last corrections, additions, and improvements. Publ. by mr. Warburton. With occasional notes, p.44
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Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land? All fear, none aid you, and few understand. ✨ Alexander Pope, Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount.) (1824). An essay on man: in four epistles to H. St … ▶
Here thou, great Anna! Whom three realms obey, / Dost sometimes counsel take—and sometimes tea. ✨ 'The Rape of the Lock' (1714) canto 3, l. 7
Why has not Man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, Man is not a Fly. Say what the use, were finer optics giv'n, T' inspect a mite, not comprehend the heav'n. ✨ Alexander Pope, John Wilson Crok … ▶
The Physician, by the study and inspection of urine and ordure, approves himself in the science; and in like sort should our author accustom and exercise his imagination upon the dregs of nature. ✨ A … ▶
The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still. ✨ Epistles to Several Persons To Lord Bathurst l. 155 (1733)

Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve. ✨ Alexander Pope (1751). The works of Alexander Pope. With his last corrections, additions, and improvements. Publ. by mr. Warburton. With occasional notes, p.44

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