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Alexander Pope [1688-1744] English

Rank: 11
Poet (with poems)

Classicism, Deism, Didactism, Enlightenment, Freemasons, Satire

Alexander Pope was an 18th-century English poet. He is best known for his satirical verse, as well as for his translation of Homer.

Nature, Art, Education, Health, Intelligence, Men, Wisdom, Alone, Anger, Best, Business, Chance, Change, Diet, Fear, Forgiveness, Great, Happiness, Hope, Humor, Learning, Marriage, Patriotism, Positive, Science, Trust, Truth

Quote	Tags	Rank
To err is human; to forgive, divine.	Forgiveness	101
To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.	Anger	102
The proper study of Mankind is Man.		103
All nature is but art unknown to thee.	Art, Nature	104
Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.	Education	105
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.	Change, Great, Nature	106
The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.		107
A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.	Learning	108
The most positive men are the most credulous.	Men, Positive	109
Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.		110
Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.		111
Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel.	Best, Men	112
On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.		113
Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.		114
The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.		115
There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.		116
No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.		117
A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead.		118
What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.	Diet, Health	119
A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.	Art	120
Never find fault with the absent.	Wisdom	121
Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.		122
Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.		123
All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.	Nature	124
Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.	Education	125
Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.		126
A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.	Business	201
Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.		202
No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.		203
Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.		204
Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.		205
How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!		206
Health consists with temperance alone.	Alone, Health	207
Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be blest.	Hope	208
So vast is art, so narrow human wit.	Art	209
On wrongs swift vengeance waits.		210
Those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.		211
Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.		212
The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.		213
Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.		214
And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade.	Truth	215
How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.		216
The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.	Patriotism	217
The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.		218
Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.		219
Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.		220
Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!		221
Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.		222
Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.		223
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.	Fear	224
Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.		225
A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.		226
And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.		301
Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.		302
The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.		303
Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.		304
How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?		305
True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.	Chance	306
Act well your part, there all the honour lies.		307
Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.		308
Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.		309
Men would be angels, angels would be gods.		310
Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.	Happiness	311
Passions are the gales of life.		312
One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.	Science	313
Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.	Trust	314
The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.		315
Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.		316
Wit is the lowest form of humor.	Humor	317
If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.		318
Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.		319
'Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.		320
And die of nothing but a rage to live.		321
I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.		322
Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.		323
A cherub's face, a reptile all the rest.		324
To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake.		325
Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.	Intelligence	326
Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?		401
A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.		402
For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.		403
But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?		404
'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.		405
Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.		406
The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.	Intelligence	407
Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.		408
Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be.		409
Order is heaven's first law.		410
Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use.		411
True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.		412
For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.		413
Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.	Nature	414
Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.		415
Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.		416
Gentle dullness ever loves a joke.		417
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.		418
They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.	Marriage	419
But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.		420
Lo, what huge heaps of littleness around!		421
At ev'ry word a reputation dies.		422
Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!		423
Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.		424
Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men.		425
Fools admire, but men of sense approve.		426
Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.		501
Woman's at best a contradiction still.		502
The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.		503
Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.	Wisdom	504
An honest man's the noblest work of God.		505
Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can.		506
The world forgetting, by the world forgot.		507

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