Quotes By Alexander Pope

And die of nothing but a rage to live.

Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

Fools admire, but men of sense approve.

At ev'ry word a reputation dies.

Men would be angels, angels would be gods.

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

Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.

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.

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.

The proper study of Mankind is Man.

'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.

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.

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.

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.

How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

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

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

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.