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The proper study of Mankind is Man.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest.
Alexander Pope
Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.
Alexander Pope
Wise wretch! with pleasures too refined to please, With too much spirit to be e'er at ease, With too much quickness ever to be taught, With too much thinking to have common thought: You purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing but a rage to live.
Alexander Pope
Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate and rot.
Alexander Pope
Our rural ancestors, with little blest, Patient of labor when the end was rest, Indulged the day that housed their annual grain, With feasts, and off'rings, and a thankful strain.
Alexander Pope
I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
Alexander Pope
Be silent always when you doubt your sense.
Alexander Pope
Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate.
Alexander Pope
Do 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 Pope
Ask for what end the heavenly bodies shine, Earth for whose use? Pride answers, 'Tis for mine For me kind nature wakes her genial power, Suckles each herb, and spreads out every flower.
Alexander Pope
The dances ended, all the fairy train For pinks and daisies search'd the flow'ry plain.
Alexander Pope
A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.
Alexander Pope
Whoe'er he be That tells my faults, I hate him mortally.
Alexander Pope
Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.
Alexander Pope
A little learning is a dangerous thing Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
Alexander Pope
Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
Alexander Pope
Mankind is unamendable.
Alexander Pope
chaos of thought and passion, all confus'd.
Alexander Pope
Not half so swift the trembling doves can fly, When the fierce eagle cleaves the liquid sky Not half so swiftly the fierce eagle moves, When thro' the clouds he drives the trembling doves.
Alexander Pope
To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart
Alexander Pope
