Alexander Pope Quotes

True wit is nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought but ne'er so well expressed.

All gardening is landscape painting.

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.

Most critics, fond of subservient artstill make the whole depend upon a part.They talk of principles, but notions prizeAnd all to one loved folly sacrifice.

Health consists with temperance alone.

How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot!The world forgetting, by the world forgot.Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d

They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.

There is nothing meritorious but virtue and friendship.

A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.

For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.

Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night: God said "Let Newton be!" and all was light.

So vast is art, so narrow human wit.

Then marble soften'd into life grew warm.

Oh let me live my own! and die so too! ("To live and die is all I have to do:") Maintain a poet's dignity and ease, And see what friends, and read what books I please.

All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.

The most positive men are the most credulous.

A man of business may talk of philosophy a man who has none may practise it.

Blessed be he who expects nothing for he shall never be disappointed.

The feast of reason and the flow of soul.

To err is human, to forgive, divine.