Alexander Pope
The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.Collection: Patriotism
To err is human; to forgive, divine.Collection: Forgiveness
The most positive men are the most credulous.Collection: Positive
Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.Collection: Intelligence
They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.Collection: Marriage
Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!Collection: Nature
And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade.Collection: Truth
But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?Collection: Future
Never find fault with the absent.Collection: Wisdom
Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.Collection: Best
What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.Collection: Health
For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.Collection: Faith
One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.Collection: Science
So vast is art, so narrow human wit.Collection: Art
Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.Collection: Wisdom
Wit is the lowest form of humor.Collection: Humor
Health consists with temperance alone.Collection: Health
For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.Collection: Government
True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.Collection: Art
The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.Collection: Nature
All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.Collection: Nature
Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be blest.Collection: Hope
Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.Collection: Education
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.Collection: Love
A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.Collection: Art
All nature is but art unknown to thee.Collection: Nature
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.Collection: Fear
Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.Collection: Nature
'Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.Collection: Education
The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.Collection: Intelligence
Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.Collection: Happiness
To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.Collection: Anger
A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.Collection: Learning
Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.Collection: Nature
Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.Collection: Education
Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.Collection: Trust
Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.Collection: God
Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.Collection: God
Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.
Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.
Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
On wrongs swift vengeance waits.
Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.
Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
No one should be ashamed to admit he is wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
And die of nothing but a rage to live.