Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Mankind is unamendable.
Alexander Pope
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
Literary Historian
Poet
Translator
the City
Pope the Poet
Alexander I Pope
Alexander
I Pope
Mankind
More quotes by Alexander Pope
Lo! the poor Indian! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind His soul proud Science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or milky way.
Alexander Pope
Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run amuck, and tilt at all I meet.
Alexander Pope
Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
Alexander Pope
You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
Alexander Pope
Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Alexander Pope
Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
Alexander Pope
A little learning is a dangerous thing Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
Alexander Pope
The people's voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
Alexander Pope
Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land? All fear, none aid you, and few understand.
Alexander Pope
The finest minds, like the finest metals, dissolve the easiest.
Alexander Pope
To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each Seene, and be what they behold: For this the Tragic Muse first trod the stage.
Alexander Pope
Judges and senates have been bought for gold Esteem and love were never to be sold.
Alexander Pope
I lose my patience, and I own it too, When works are censur'd, not as bad but new While if our Elders break all reason's laws, These fools demand not pardon but Applause.
Alexander Pope
See how the World its Veterans rewards! A Youth of Frolics, an old Age of Cards Fair to no purpose, artful to no end, Young without Lovers, old without a Friend A Fop their Passion, but their Prize a Sot Alive ridiculous, and dead forgot.
Alexander Pope
Search then the ruling passion: This clue, once found, unravels all the rest.
Alexander Pope
No writing is good that does not tend to better mankind in some way or other.
Alexander Pope
Nor Fame I slight, nor for her favors call She comes unlooked for, if she comes at all .
Alexander Pope
See skulking Truth to her old cavern fled, Mountains of Casuistry heap'd o'er her head! Philosophy, that lean'd on Heav'n before, Shrinks to her second cause, and is no more. Physic of Metaphysic begs defence, And Metaphysic calls for aid on Sense! See Mystery to Mathematics fly!
Alexander Pope
How glowing guilt exalts the keen delight!
Alexander Pope
On cold December fragrant chaplets blow, And heavy harvests nod beneath the snow.
Alexander Pope