Alexander Pope Quotes

The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.
The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.
The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.
The most positive men are the most credulous.
The proper study of Mankind is Man.
The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.
The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.
The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.
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.
The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.
They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.
Those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.
Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
'Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.
'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.
To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
To err is human; to forgive, divine.
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Alexander Pope
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21 May, 1688
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30 May, 1744
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