Pope, Alexander
"Our proper bliss depends on what we blame."
"All nature is but art unknown to thee;
"Say first, of God above or man below, What can we reason but from what we know?"
"The public is a fool."
"Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child."
"But blind to former as to future fate, What mortal knows his pre-existent state?"
"Health consists with temperance alone."
"'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do."
"But honest instinct comes a volunteer; Sure never to o'er-shoot, but just to hit, While still too wide or short in human wit."
"Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God."
"To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake."
"You purchase pain with all that joy can give, and die of nothing but a rage to live."
"When rumours increase, and when there is an abundance of noise and clamour, believe the second report."
"In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside."
"We think our Fathers Fools, so wise we grow;
"To err is human, to forgive divine." - An Essay on Criticism
"Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." - An Essay on Criticism
"To err is human, to forgive, divine." - An Essay on Criticism
"'Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed' was the ninth beatitude." - letter (1725)
"I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian." - Thoughts on Various Subjects
"A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday." - Thoughts on Various Subjects
All chance, direction which thou canst not see;
All discord, harmony not understood;
All partial evil, universal good."
Our Wiser Sons, no doubt, will think us so."
- An Essay on Criticism
