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Alexander Pope

Birthday: May 21, 1688
Deathday: May 30, 1744
Category: English Poet
Type: Poet
National: English

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A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing...

Act well your part, there all the honour lies....

Be not the first by whom the new are tried,...

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or...

A man should never be ashamed to own he has...

A person who is too nice an observer of the...

A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits....

A work of art that contains theories is like an...

All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body...

All nature is but art unknown to thee....

An honest man's the noblest work of God....

And all who told it added something new, and all...

And die of nothing but a rage to live....

And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the...

At ev'ry word a reputation dies....

Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike...

Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a...

Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall...

But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal...

But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts...

Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul....

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is...

Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join...

Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but...

Fools admire, but men of sense approve....

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread....

For fools rush in where angels fear to tread....

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

For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't...

Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense...

Gentle dullness ever loves a joke....

Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not,...

Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal...

Health consists with temperance alone....

Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of...

Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your...

Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is,...

Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die....

How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting,...

How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!...

How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense,...

I find myself hoping a total end of all the...

If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody...

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike...

Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools....

Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue...

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper...

Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive...

Lo, what huge heaps of littleness around!...

Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in...

Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts...

Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those...

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing,...

Men dream of courtship, but in wedlock wake....

Men must be taught as if you taught them not,...

Men would be angels, angels would be gods....

Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God...

Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's...

Never find fault with the absent....

Never was it given to mortal man - To lie...

No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong,...

No woman ever hates a man for being in love...

Not always actions show the man; we find who does...

Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men...

Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man;...

On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card,...

On wrongs swift vengeance waits....

One science only will one genius fit; so vast is...

Order is heaven's first law....

Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make...

Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for...

Passions are the gales of life....

Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise....

Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would...

Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense...

Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making...

Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But...

So vast is art, so narrow human wit....

Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth....

Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because...

Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault...

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

The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue...

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's...

The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang...

The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is...

The most positive men are the most credulous....

The proper study of Mankind is Man....

The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling...

The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a...

The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg....

The way of the Creative works through change and transformation,...

The world forgetting, by the world forgot....

The worst of madmen is a saint run mad....

There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far...

They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake....

Those move easiest who have learn'd to dance....

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

'Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig...

'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths...

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

To err is human; to forgive, divine....

To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial...

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as...

True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in...

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use...

Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell...

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about...

Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt,...

Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er...

Wit is the lowest form of humor....

Woman's at best a contradiction still....