Alexander Pope

“Wise wretch! with pleasures too refined to please, With too much spirit to be e'er at ease, With too much quickness ever to be taught, With too much thinking to have common thought: You purc...”

“Hope springs eternal in the human breast; Man never Is, but always To be blest. The soul, uneasy, and confin'd from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.”

“Know then thyself, presume not God to scan, The proper study of mankind is Man. Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise and rudely great: With too much knowledge for th...”

“Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.”

“To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart”

“True Wit is Nature to advantage dress'd What 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 shad...”

“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, W...”

“Thus let me live, unseen, unknown; Thus unlamented let me die; Steal from the world, and not a stone Tell where I lie.”

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

“Some who grow dull religious straight commence And gain in morals what they lose in sense.”

“Solitude Happy 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 supp...”

“Music resembles poetry, in each Are nameless graces which no methods teach, And which a master hand alone can reach.”

“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.”

“Know thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.”

“For he lives twice who can at once employ, The present well, and e’en the past enjoy.”

“A little Learning is a dangerous Thing.”

“Knowledge of the world is as irrelevant in art as it is in a love affair.”

“Order is heaven's first law.”

“Next o'er his books his eyes began to roll, In pleasing memory of all he stole.”

“Never find fault with the absent.”