Alexander Pope's Quotes

Alexander Pope's Quotes 48

Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can.

Tis but a part we see and not a whole.

And after all what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade.

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Trust not yourself but your defects to know make use of every friend and...

Behold the child by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle tickled with...

Extremes in nature equal ends produce In man they join to some mysterious use.

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The learned is happy nature to explore The fool is happy that he knows no...

The most positive men are the most credulous.

Some old men continually praise the time of their youth. In fact you would...

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing more a cunning thing but...

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They dream in courtship but in wedlock wake.

No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her but many a woman hate a...

A little learning is a dangerous thing Drink deep or taste not the Pierian...

The bookful blockhead ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his...

Wit is the lowest form of humor.

Hope travels through nor quits us when we die.

Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is but always To be Blest.

Know then thyself presume not God to scan The proper study of mankind is man.

Slave to no sect who takes no private road But looks through Nature up to...

Lo! The poor Indian whose untutored mind sees God in clouds or hears him in...

An honest man's the noblest work of God.

Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said Let Newton be! and...

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

A God without dominion providence and final causes is nothing else but...

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