91 result(s) for Alexander Pope Quotes.
"Know then thyself, presume not God to scan."
"Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer."
"True ease in writing comes from art, not chance."
"The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool, the playful children just let loose from school."
"Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, as to be hated needs but to be seen; yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, we first endure, then pity, then embrace."
"To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, to raise the genius, and to mend the heart."
"The learned is happy nature to explore, the fool is happy that he knows no more."
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"Pleased with the danger, when the waves went high, he sought the storms; but for the calm unfit, would steer too nigh the sands, to boast his wit."
"All looks yellow to the jaundiced eye."
"Remembrance and reflection how allied! What thin partitions sense from thought divide!"
"Order is heaven's first law."
"All are but parts of one stupendous whole, whose body Nature is, and God the soul."
"Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see: that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me."
"Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground."
"To err is human, to forgive divine."
"A little learning is a dangerous thing."
"No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her."
"The proper study of mankind is man."
"Act well your part; there all the honour lies."
"To err is human, to repent divine, to persist devilish."
"The world forgetting, by the world forgot."
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"Men must be taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown proposed as things forgot."
"All seems infected that the infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye."
"Vital spark of heavenly flame, quit, oh quit this mortal frame!"
"Lo, the poor Indian! whose untutored mind Sees God in clouds, or hears Him in the wind; His soul proud Science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or Milky Way."
"The only sure things are Death and Taxes."
"Words are like leaves; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found."
"Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon."
"Every man for himself, his own ends, and means, and welfare."
"Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid."
"A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity."
"Some people are so fond of ill-luck that they run halfway to meet it."
"All nature is but art, unknown to thee; All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good."
"Men would be angels, angels would be gods."
"Who tells me true, though in his pain he says it, will teach me more than one that’s wise as I am."
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"Teach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show; that mercy show to me."
"What reason weaves, by passion is undone."
"To err is human, to forgive, divine."
"Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be blest."
"Act well your part, there all the honor lies."
"All nature is but art, unknown to thee; all chance, direction, which thou canst not see."
"A little learning is a dang'rous thing; drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring."
"What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed."
"True wit is nature to advantage dress'd, what oft was thought, but never so well express'd."
"Remembrance and reflection how allied!"
"An honest man's the noblest work of God."
"See first that great provisions are decreed; here sow the seed, here all your care succeed."
"Some praise at morning what they blame at night, but always think the last opinion right."
"No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday."
"Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe."
"Honor and shame from no condition rise; act well your part, there all the honor lies."
"Most authors steal their works, or buy; Garth did not write his own Dispensary."
"All men should strive to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why."
"What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?"
"Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends."
"Thus let me live, unseen, unknown; thus unlamented let me die; steal from the world, and not a stone tell where I lie."
"The road to hell is paved with good intentions."
"Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night: God said, 'Let Newton be!' and all was light."
"Be not the first by whom the new are tried, nor yet the last to lay the old aside."
"Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, as to be hated, needs but to be seen; yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, we first endure, then pity, then embrace."
"Some people will never learn anything because they understand everything too soon."
"How happy is the blameless vestal's lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resigned."
"To err is human; to forgive, divine."
"Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man."
"Fools rush in where angels fear to tread."
"Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed."
"True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learned to dance."
"The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, with loads of learned lumber in his head."
"Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul."
"To wake the soul by tender strokes of art."
"Hope springs eternal in the human breast."
"Act well your part; there all the honor lies."
"A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring."
"Accuse not Nature, she hath done her part; Do thou but thine."
"As in the case of fools, the wiser men go on without a thought."
"For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right."
"The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues."
"Life is a lengthy preparation for something that never happens."
"Every woman is at heart a Rake."
"You see by this that the goodness of God may be greater than we dare expect."
"Nature and nature's laws lay hid in night; God said, 'Let Newton be!' and all was light."
"The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read."
"Vice is a creature of such hideous mien, as to be hated needs but to be seen."
"There is nothing that is more dangerous than a stupid friend."
"Every poet is a thief."
"Order is Heaven's first law; and this confessed, some are and must be greater than the rest."
"First in the field, and he who conquers first, from the rest of his enemies, must stand apart."
"The soul of a man is more important than the frame of the body."
"Men are not slaves by nature, but by law."
"The man conforms to the fundamentals, but the poet transcends them."
"With regard to the arts, it's more difficult to learn a separate art than to master many as one."
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