Alexander Pope Quotes - Page 3

True wit is Nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought but ne'er so well express'd.

Sickness is a sort of early old age it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state.

An honest man's the noblest work of God.

He that would pun would pick a pocket.

All seems infected that the infected spy as all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.

Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night: God said "Let Newton be!" and all was light.

Happy the man, whose wish and careA few paternal acres bound,Content to breathe his native airIn his own ground.

Trust not yourself; but your defects to know,Make use of ev'ry friend—and ev'ry foe.

What dire offence from am'rous causes springs. What mighty contests rise from trivial things.

Remembrance and reflection how allied!What thin partitions Sense from Thought divide!

There is no study that is not capable of delighting us, after a little application to it.

Oh let me live my own! and die so too! ("To live and die is all I have to do:") Maintain a poet's dignity and ease, And see what friends, and read what books I please.

True Wit is Nature to advantage dress'dWhat oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd;Something whose truth convinced at sight we find,That gives us back the image of our mind.As shades more sweetly recommend the light,So modest plainness sets off sprightly wit.

A little learning is a dangerous thing Drink deep or taste not the Pierian spring Their shallow draughts intoxicate the brain And drinking largely sobers us again.

Men, some to business take, some to pleasure take; but every woman is at heart a rake

True wit is nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought but ne'er so well expressed.

There is nothing meritorious but virtue and friendship.

Ye sacred nine

Yes, I am proud; I must be proud to seeMen not afraid of God afraid of me.

Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night:God said, Let Newton be! and all was light.

I have as little fear that God will damn a man that has charity as I hope that the priests can save one who has not.

In faith and hope the world will disagree but all mankind's concern is charity.