Alexander Pope Quotes

"Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire"

"Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest."

"Men dream of courtship, but in wedlock wake."

"How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?"

"But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor."

"Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God."

"Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends."

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

"Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought."

"Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child."

"For fools rush in where angels fear to tread."

"I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers."

"We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people."

"The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more"

"A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring; There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain; And drinking largely sobers us again."

"A little bit of knowledge"

"True disputants are like true sportsman: their whole delight is in the pursuit."

"Sure of their qualities and demanding praise, more go to ruined fortunes than are raised."

"Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing"

"Those move easiest who have learn'd to dance"