True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed.
ALEXANDER POPETrue wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed.
ALEXANDER POPELet fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.
ALEXANDER POPETo be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
ALEXANDER POPETis but a part we see, and not a whole.
ALEXANDER POPEA little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
ALEXANDER POPEHe who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
ALEXANDER POPEThe only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.
ALEXANDER POPEThere is a majesty in simplicity.
ALEXANDER POPEYou purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
ALEXANDER POPETo swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
ALEXANDER POPEGreat oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He’s sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres’ gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper’s hand.
ALEXANDER POPEOn life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
ALEXANDER POPEThe Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
ALEXANDER POPEAs the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
ALEXANDER POPEAmusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
ALEXANDER POPEWords are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.
ALEXANDER POPE