Quotes By Author: alexander pope
“For he lives twice who can at once employ,The present well, and e’en the past enjoy.”
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“Yes, I am proud; I must be proud to seeMen not afraid of God afraid of me.”
“SolitudeHappy the man, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air In his own ground. Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire; Whose trees in summer yield him shade, In winter fire. Blest, who can unconcern’dly find Hours, days, and years, slide soft away In health of body, peace of mind, Quiet by day. Sound sleep by night; study and ease Together mix’d, sweet recreation, And innocence, which most does please With meditation. Thus let me live, unseen, unknown; Thus unlamented let me die; Steal from the world, and not a stone Tell where I lie.”
“The Wit of Cheats, the Courage of a Whore,Are what ten thousand envy and adore:All, all look up, with reverential Awe,At crimes that ‘scape, or triumph o’er the Law:While Truth, Worth, Wisdom, daily they decry-`’Nothing is sacred now but Villainy’- Epilogue to the Satires, Dialogue I”
“Know thyself, presume not God to scan;The proper study of mankind is man.”
“To wake the soul by tender strokes of art,To raise the genius, and to mend the heart”
“A little Learning is a dangerous Thing.”
“Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.”
“A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.”