Quotes
Quotes - Pope
Nature made every fop to plague his brother, Just as one beauty mortifies another.
To err is human, to forgive, divine.
Good-nature and good-sense must ever join; To err is human, to forgive, divine.
To err is human; to forgive, divine. -Alexander Pope.
To err is human; to forgive, divine.
Shall I, like Curtius, desperate in my zeal, O'er head and ears plunge for the common weal? Or rob Rome's ancient geese of all their glories, And cackling save the monarchies of Tories?
Who pants for glory, finds but short repose; A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows.
What nature wants, commodious gold bestows; 'Tis thus we cut the bread another sows.
And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.
One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.
And all who told it added something new, And all who heard it made enlargements too.
From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art.
Th' unwilling gratitude of base mankind!
Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength.
'Tis thus the mercury of man is fix'd, Strong grows the virtue with his nature mix'd.
How glowing guilt exalts the keen delight!
On wings of wind came flying all abroad.
Haste is slow. [Lat., Festinatio tarda est.]
Health consists with Temperance alone.
It is part of the cure to wish to be cured. [Lat., Pars sanitatis velle sanari fruit.]
Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land? All fear, none aid you, and few understand.
Wit is the lowest form of humor.
An honest man's the noblest work of God.
For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest.
I was not born for Courts or great affairs; I pay my debts, believe, and say my pray'rs.
