Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot. ALEXANDER POPE ForgetMenWisdom
Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace. ALEXANDER POPE DeathDeepPacePhilosophyRaceSilenceWings
True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed. ALEXANDER POPE ExpressionNatureTrue
What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease. ALEXANDER POPE AnxietyFoodHealthSick
The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them. ALEXANDER POPE ChanceRunStopTalkTimeWisdomYourself
He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest. ALEXANDER POPE BestBrotherGodHimselfService
On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale. ALEXANDER POPE FunnyLifeOceanPassionReason
What then remains, but well our power to use, And keep good-humor still whate’er we lose? And trust me, dear, good-humor can prevail, When airs, and flights, and screams, and scolding fail. ALEXANDER POPE CharacterFailureGoodnessHumorPowerTrust
Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude. ALEXANDER POPE BlessingDisappointExpectationMen
In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind’s concern is charity. ALEXANDER POPE CharityFaithGenerosityHopeKindnessManWorld
Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have. ALEXANDER POPE NatureStrangeThinkingVice
No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday. ALEXANDER POPE GrowthInspirationalMotivationalShameWisdomWordWrong
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 POPE GodGreatnessKindMenStudyWisdom
Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous. ALEXANDER POPE ExcellenceLearningMischiefOneselfPowerfulScience
For 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 BurnDeserveHopeMyselfPoetryPraise