O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
ALEXANDER POPEO peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
ALEXANDER POPEAll are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
ALEXANDER POPEOf all the causes which conspire to blind Man’s erring judgement, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is PRIDE, the never-failing vice of fools.
ALEXANDER POPEAmusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
ALEXANDER POPEA little learning is a dangerous thing.
ALEXANDER POPETo be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
ALEXANDER POPEMen must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
ALEXANDER POPECharm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
ALEXANDER POPEPassions are the gales of life.
ALEXANDER POPETeach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
ALEXANDER POPEWhy did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
ALEXANDER POPEThe Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
ALEXANDER POPEWhat some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.
ALEXANDER POPEIt often happens that those are the best people whose characters have been most injured by slanderers: as we usually find that to be the sweetest fruit which the birds have been picking at.
ALEXANDER POPEThe greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.
ALEXANDER POPEFor what I have publish’d, I can only hope to be pardon’d; but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais’d.
ALEXANDER POPE