Quotes By Alexander Pope

I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

Act well your part, there all the honour lies.

Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.

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.

The most positive men are the most credulous.

Passions are the gales of life.

Woman's at best a contradiction still.

Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men.

Gentle dullness ever loves a joke.

'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.

But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.

Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.

Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

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.

One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.

The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.

Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.

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

The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.