Quotes by Alexander Pope

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

“They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.”

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

“To err is human; to forgive, divine.”

“A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.”

“So vast is art, so narrow human wit.”

“Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.”

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

“Never find fault with the absent.”

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

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

“What dire offence from am'rous causes springs,What mighty contests rise from trivial things,...”

“How happy is the blameless vestals lot!The world forgetting, by the world forgot.Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!Each prayr accepted, and each wish resignd”

“Death, only death, can break the lasting chain;And here, ev'n then, shall my cold dust remain”

“For fools admire but men of sense approve.”

“I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.”

“When two people compliment each other with the choice of anything each of them generally gets that which he likes least.”

“All are but parts of one stupendous whole Whose body Nature is and God the soul.”

“Till tired he sleeps and life's poor play is o'er.”

“Men would be angels Angels would be gods.”