142 Quotations by Alexander Pope
- 121. To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.
- 122. To err is human, to forgive is divine.
- 123. To err is human; to forgive, divine.
- 124. True disputants are like true sportsman: their whole delight is in the pursuit.
- 125. True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learned to dance. 'T ...
- 126. True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making everyone about one as easy as one c ...
- 127. True wit is nature to advantage dressed, what oft was thought, but never so well expressed.
- 128. Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.
- 129. Two purposes in human nature rule. Self-love to urge, and reason to restrain.
- 130. Virtuous and vicious everyone must be; few in extremes, but all in degree.
- 131. We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philoso ...
- 132. We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.
- 133. What will a child learn sooner than a song?
- 134. What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.
- 135. When I find a great deal of gratitude in a poor man, I take it for granted there would be as much ge ...
- 136. When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.
- 137. When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last.
- 138. Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel?
- 139. Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be.
- 140. Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents, or my own?
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