Top 744 Quotes & Sayings by Alexander Pope - Page 2
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Last updated on April 19, 2025.
Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.
All nature is but art unknown to thee.
They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.
Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.
And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.
Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.
Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can.
A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.
A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.
Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead.
But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?
Wit is the lowest form of humor.
Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.
A cherub's face, a reptile all the rest.
Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.
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.
Lo, what huge heaps of littleness around!
Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.
The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.
Passions are the gales of life.
True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.
Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
Those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.
How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!
Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use.
'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.
The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.
Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!
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.
Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men.
The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.
Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.
The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.
Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be.
Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.
Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.
True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.
Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.
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.
Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.
The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.
To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake.
Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.
Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel.
Two purposes in human nature rule. Self- love to urge, and reason to restrain.
Every professional was once an amateur.
Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
Unblemish'd let me live or die unknown; Oh, grant an honest fame, or grant me none!
The nicest constitutions of government are often like the finest pieces of clock-work, which, depending on so many motions, are therefore more subject to be out of order.
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.
There is a majesty in simplicity.
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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