Quotes by Alexander Pope

“A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again.”

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“The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, And wretches hang that jurymen may dine.”

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“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 the skeptic side, With too much weakness for the stoic’s pride, He hangs between; in doubt to act, or rest; In doubt to deem himself a god or beast; In doubt his mind or body to prefer; Born but to die, and reas’ning but to err; Alike in ignorance, his reason such, Whether he thinks too little or too much; Chaos of thought and passion, all confused; Still by himself abused, or disabused; Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled; The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!”

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“Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.”

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“The ruling passion, be it what it will, The ruling passion conquers reason still.”

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“All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body nature is, and God the soul.”

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“He who tells a lie, is not sensible how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.”

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“Teach me to feel another’s wo, To hide the fault I see: That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me.”

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“For forms of government let fools contest; Whate’er is best administered is best.”

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

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