“How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot!The world forgetting, by the world forgot.Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d”
— Alexander PopeA little learning is a dangerous thing; drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
— Alexander PopeAct well your part; there all the honour lies.
— Alexander PopeTo be angry is to revenge the faults of others upon ourselves.
— Alexander PopeHonor and shame from no condition rise; Act well your part, there all the honor lies.
— Alexander PopeKnow then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.
— Alexander PopeThe greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.
— Alexander PopeTrue wit is nature to advantage dressed, what oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed.
— Alexander PopeIn faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity.
— Alexander PopeTo err is human, to forgive, divine.
— Alexander PopeFools rush in where angels fear to tread.
— Alexander PopeHope springs eternal in the human breast.
— Alexander PopeSome people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
— Alexander PopeAn honest man is the noblest work of God.
— Alexander PopeAll nature is but art, unknown to thee; All chance, direction, which thou canst not see.
— Alexander PopeWho shall decide when doctors disagree, and soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?
— Alexander PopeAt every word a reputation dies.
— Alexander PopeWhat some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.
— Alexander PopeBlessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
— Alexander PopeVice is a monster of so frightful mien, as to be hated needs but to be seen.
— Alexander PopeBe not the first by whom the new are tried, nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
— Alexander Pope