Alexander Pope on Senses

“What thin partitions sense from thought divide.”

“'Tis use alone that sanctifies expense And splendor borrows all her rays from sense.”

“Fool, 'tis in vain from wit to wit to roam: Know, sense, like charity, begins at home.”

“Good sense which only is the gift of Heaven, And though no science, fairly worth the seven.”

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