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Alexander Pope
The bookful blockhead,...
The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read,
With loads of learned lumber in his head.
For observations which...
For observations which ourselves we make,
We grow more partial for th'observer's sake.
Nature, and Nature's...
Nature, and Nature's laws lay hid in night;
God said, 'Let Newton be!' and all was...
There is a...
There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.
It is with...
It is with our judgments as with our watches: no two go just alike, yet each believes his...
A little learning...
A little learning is a dang'rous thing;
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring:
There shallow draughts...
All are but...
All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
Fools rush in...
Fools rush in where Angels fear to tread.
Source: An Essay on Criticism ...
An honest man's...
An honest man's the noblest work of God.
Source: An Essay on Man, 1734
--...
Fix'd like a...
Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot,
To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot.
A person who...
A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor...
All seems infected...
All seems infected that th'infected spy,
As all looks yellow to the jaundic'd eye.
One simile, that...
One simile, that solitary shines
In a dry desert of a thousand lines.
Source:...
To err is...
To err is human, to forgive, divine.
Source: An Essay on Criticism.
-- Alexander...
Trust not yourself,...
Trust not yourself, but your defects to know. Make use of every friend and every foe.
The learn'd is...
The learn'd is happy nature to explore,
The fool is happy that he knows no more.
True wit is...
True wit is nature to advantage dress'd;
What oft was thought, but ne'er so well...
Hope springs eternal...
Hope springs eternal in the human breast;
Man never is, but always to be blessed.
Order is heav'ns...
Order is heav'ns first law.
Source: An Essay on Man
-- Alexander Pope, (May 21...
Not to go...
Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.