Alexander Pope Quotes

The most positive men are the most credulous.
Alexander Pope

Positive, Men, Credulous

Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.
Alexander Pope

Good, Sense, Genius

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

Friends, Full, Dogs

How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!
Alexander Pope

Wise, Doubt, Cautious

And die of nothing but a rage to live.
Alexander Pope

Live, Nothing, Die

Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
Alexander Pope

Men, Sense, Fools

Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.
Alexander Pope

Happy, Care, Wish

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.
Alexander Pope

Greatest, Person, Eyes

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
Alexander Pope

Education, Mind, Common

Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
Alexander Pope

Men, Unknown, Taught

Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.
Alexander Pope

Blessed, Someone, Another

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.
Alexander Pope

Diet, Health, Anxiety

Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.
Alexander Pope

Honor, Lies, Act

So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
Alexander Pope

Art, Human, Wit

The proper study of Mankind is Man.
Alexander Pope

Study, Mankind, Proper

The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.
Alexander Pope

Change, Nature, Great

Those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.
Alexander Pope

Dance, Learn, Move

Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?
Alexander Pope

Doubt, Shall, Decide

Wit is the lowest form of humor.
Alexander Pope

Humor, Wit, Lowest

A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.
Alexander Pope

Nature, God, Nothing

If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.
Alexander Pope

Business, Character, Nobody

On wrongs swift vengeance waits.
Alexander Pope

Vengeance, Wrongs, Swift

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

Nature, God, Soul

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

Nature, God, Night

The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.
Alexander Pope

Nature, Happy, Fool

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Poet

Born: May 21, 1688

Died: May 30, 1744

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