Beauty draws us with a single hair.
ALEXANDER POPEStrength of mind is exercise, not rest.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
-
-
Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
ALEXANDER POPE -
The most positive men are the most credulous.
ALEXANDER POPE -
What is it to be wise? ‘Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others’ faults, and feel our own.
ALEXANDER POPE -
To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart.
ALEXANDER POPE -
What will a child learn sooner than a song?
ALEXANDER POPE -
To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
ALEXANDER POPE -
There is a majesty in simplicity.
ALEXANDER POPE -
Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.
ALEXANDER POPE -
An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
ALEXANDER POPE -
It 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 POPE -
To err is human; to forgive, divine.
ALEXANDER POPE -
Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
ALEXANDER POPE -
Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
ALEXANDER POPE -
Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
ALEXANDER POPE -
Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.
ALEXANDER POPE