Quotes by Alexander Pope
'Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.
By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned; By strangers honored, and by strangers mourned.
Like bubbles on the sea of matter borne, They rise, they break, and to that sea return.
A man should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
Lo, what huge heaps of littleness around!
Love, free as air at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.
Sir, I admit to your general rule that every poet is a fool. But you yourself may serve to show it that not every fool is a poet.
Hither the heroes and nymphs resort, To taste awhile the pleasures of a court; In various talk th' instuctive hours they past, Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last; One speaks the glory of the British Queen, And one describes a charming Indian screen A third interprets motions, looks and eyes; At every word a reputation dies.
A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: there shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking largely sobers us again.
Men must be taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown proposed as things forgot.
Teach me to feel another's woe. To hide the fault I see: That the mercy I show to others; that mercy also show to me.
At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.
Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can.
One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.
Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue, But, like the shadow, proves the substance true.
Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
Thus Pegasus, a nearer way to take, May boldly deviate from the common track....
Die and endow a college or a cat.
True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance....
Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
'Tis education forms the common mind, Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
But all subsists by elemental strife; And Passions are the elements of Life.
He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.
