Alexander Pope
75 quotations
For virtue's self may too much zeal be had; the worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there's no body at home.
It is with our judgments as with our watches: no two go just alike, yet each believes his own.
Curse on all laws, but those that love has made.
True disputants are like true sportsman: their whole delight is in the pursuit.
When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last.
Sure of their qualities and demanding praise, more go to ruined fortunes than are raised.
Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.
They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.
Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.
Men dream of courtship, but in wedlock wake.
Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
Two purposes in human nature rule. Self-love to urge, and reason to restrain.
All nature is but art unknown to thee.
An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
The ruling passion, be it what it will, The ruling passion conquers reason still.
Passions are the gales of life.
On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.
Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.
Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men.
Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.
All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye.
At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.
Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.