Quotes By Alexander Pope

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

Health consists with temperance alone.

An honest man's the noblest work of God.

And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.

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

A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.

The proper study of Mankind is Man.

Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use.

Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.

The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.

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.

Never find fault with the absent.

True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.

A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.

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

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

How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be.

So vast is art, so narrow human wit.

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

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

The most positive men are the most credulous.

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

Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.

How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?

Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.

The world forgetting, by the world forgot.