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 POPEStrength of mind is exercise, not rest.
ALEXANDER POPEPraise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
ALEXANDER POPEHe who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
ALEXANDER POPELulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!
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 POPEThis long disease, my life.
ALEXANDER POPEI never knew any man in my life who could not bear another’s misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
ALEXANDER POPEAs the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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 POPESome people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
ALEXANDER POPETruth needs not flowers of speech.
ALEXANDER POPEWords are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.
ALEXANDER POPESleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
ALEXANDER POPEDo you find yourself making excuses when you do not perform? Shed the excuses and face reality. Excuses are the loser’s way out. They will mar your credibility and stunt your personal growth.
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 POPE