Alexander Pope Quotes

"To err is human; to forgive, divine."

"Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies."

"Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul."

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

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

"All nature is but art unknown to thee."

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

"Fools rush in where angels fear to tread."

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

"Wit is the lowest form of humor."

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

"The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave."

"Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside."

"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 mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me."

"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."

"For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best."

"Never find fault with the absent."

"Act well your part, there all the honour lies."

"The most positive men are the most credulous."

"The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head."

"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."

"Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends."

"And die of nothing but a rage to live."

"The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine."

"On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale."

"The world forgetting, by the world forgot."

"For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right."

"So vast is art, so narrow human wit."

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