Alexander Pope
75 quotations
Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.
Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel?
An excuse is worse than a lie, for an excuse is a lie, guarded.
Why has not man a microscopic eye? For the plain reason man is not a fly.
I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.
What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.
The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.
Fools rush in where Angels fear to tread.
To err is human, to forgive is divine.
How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?
Many people are capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
At every word a reputation dies.
And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.
For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.
Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
Health consists with temperance alone.
An honest man's the noblest work of God.
Act well your part; there all honor lies.
Fix'd like a plan on his peculiar spot, to draw nutrition, propagate, and rot.
Die and endow a college or a cat.