Best quotes by Alexander Pope

To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart

Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.

True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.

All seems infected that th' infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.

There is but one way I know of conversing safely with all men; that is, not by concealing what we say or do, but by saying or doing nothing that deserves to be concealed.

Do you find yourself making excuses when you do not perform? Shed the excuses and face reality. Excuses are the loser's way out. They will mar your credibility and stunt your personal growth.

Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.

When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old; and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed.

Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.

In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity.

What then remains, but well our power to use, And keep good-humor still whate'er we lose? And trust me, dear, good-humor can prevail, When airs, and flights, and screams, and scolding fail.

What will a child learn sooner than a song?

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

Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.

See how the World its Veterans rewards! A Youth of Frolics, an old Age of Cards; Fair to no purpose, artful to no end, Young without Lovers, old without a Friend; A Fop their Passion, but their Prize a Sot; Alive ridiculous, and dead forgot.

Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.

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

Simplicity is the mean between ostentation and rusticity.

Truth needs not flowers of speech.

As with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.

The most positive men are the most credulous.

Good-nature and good-sense must ever join; To err is human, to forgive, divine.

Some praise at morning what they blame at night, but always think the last opinion right.

Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.

Expression is the dress of thought.

Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.

A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink of it deeply, or taste it not, for shallow thoughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking deeply sobers us again.

Never find fault with the absent.

To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.

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

We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.

An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.

This long disease, my life.

For what I have publish'd, I can only hope to be pardon'd; but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais'd.

As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.

It often happens that those are the best people whose characters have been most injured by slanderers: as we usually find that to be the sweetest fruit which the birds have been picking at.

Love the offender, yet detest the offense.

O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.

What is it to be wise? 'Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others' faults, and feel our own.

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.

The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd

Women use lovers as they do cards; they play with them a while, and when they have got all they can by them, throw them away, call for new ones, and then perhaps lose by the new all they got by the old ones.

Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.

To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.

Every professional was once an amateur.

Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.

Act well your part, there all the honour lies.

Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.

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

There is a majesty in simplicity.

Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel?

Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.

The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them

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.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

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.

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