Alexander Pope's Quotes

Alexander Pope's Quotes 97

Never find fault with the absent.

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

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

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

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

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

Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to...

The most positive men are the most credulous.

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

They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.

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

Wit is the lowest form of humor.

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

Health consists with temperance alone.

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

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

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

Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in...

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life...

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.

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

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

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't...

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