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

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
- Alexander Pope Quote

A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.
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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
- Alexander Pope Quote

And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.
- Alexander Pope Quote

Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
- Alexander Pope Quote

Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
- Alexander Pope Quote

Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
- Alexander Pope Quote

But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.
- Alexander Pope Quote

Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use.
- Alexander Pope Quote

Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
- Alexander Pope Quote

For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
- Alexander Pope Quote

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

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

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

How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
- Alexander Pope Quote

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

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.
- Alexander Pope Quote

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.
- Alexander Pope Quote

Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.
- Alexander Pope Quote

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
- Alexander Pope Quote

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

Never find fault with the absent.
- Alexander Pope Quote

Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.
- Alexander Pope Quote

On life's vast ocean diversely we sail, Reason the card, but passion is the gale.
- Alexander Pope Quote

Order is heaven's first law.
- Alexander Pope Quote

Passions are the gales of life.
- Alexander Pope Quote

Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.
- Alexander Pope Quote

Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel.
- Alexander Pope Quote

Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.
- Alexander Pope Quote

Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.
- Alexander Pope Quote

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

Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.
- Alexander Pope Quote

Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
- Alexander Pope Quote

The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.
- Alexander Pope Quote

The err is human, to forgive divine.
- Alexander Pope Quote

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

The proper study of Mankind is Man.
- Alexander Pope Quote

The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.
- Alexander Pope Quote

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 Quote

They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.
- Alexander Pope Quote

'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.
- Alexander Pope Quote

To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
- Alexander Pope Quote

To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake.
- Alexander Pope Quote

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those who move easiest have learned to dance.
- Alexander Pope Quote

True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.
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What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.
- Alexander Pope Quote

Wit is the lowest form of humor.
- Alexander Pope Quote