Alexander Pope Quotes

To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.

Alexander Pope

A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

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So vast is art, so narrow human wit.

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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.

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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

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To err is human; to forgive, divine.

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Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!

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For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.

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Health consists with temperance alone.

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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be blest.

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Wit is the lowest form of humor.

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The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.

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Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.

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A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

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They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.

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Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.

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The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.

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The most positive men are the most credulous.

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Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.

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Never find fault with the absent.

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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.

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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.

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'Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.

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Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.

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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.

Alexander Pope