If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac’d on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.
ALEXANDER POPEIf, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac’d on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
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Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
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As with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.
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A patriot is a fool in ev’ry age.
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Every professional was once an amateur.
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Passions are the gales of life.
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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart.
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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The laughers are a majority.
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Women use lovers as they do cards; they play with them a while, and when they have got all they can by them, throw them away, call for new ones, and then perhaps lose by the new all they got by the old ones.
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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
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Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.
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