Alexander Pope
English poet
To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
- Alexander Pope
All nature is but art, unknown to thee.
- Alexander Pope
Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
- Alexander Pope
Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
- Alexander Pope
Little learning is a dangerous thing; / Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
- Alexander Pope
Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
- Alexander Pope
An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
- Alexander Pope
Our rural ancestors, with little blest, Patient of labor when the end was rest, Indulged the day that housed their annual grain, With feasts, and off'rings, and a thankful strain.
- Alexander Pope
A prudent chief not always must display His powers in equal ranks, and fair array, But with th' occasion and the place comply, Conceal his force, nay seem sometimes to fly.
- Alexander Pope
Index-learning turns no student pale,
- Alexander Pope
Yet holds the eel of Science by the tail.
- Alexander Pope
Index-learning is a term used to mock pretenders who acquire superficial knowledge merely by consulting indexes.
- Alexander Pope
Fear not the anger of the wise to raise;
- Alexander Pope
Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.
- Alexander Pope
Those best can bear reproof who merit praise.
- Alexander Pope
A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.
- Alexander Pope
There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.
- Alexander Pope
If I am right, thy grace impart; Still in the right to stay; If I am wrong, O, teach my heart to find that better way!
- Alexander Pope
Fine sense and exalted sense are not half as useful as common sense.
- Alexander Pope