Quotes from Alexander Pope

While man exclaims, "See all things for my use!" "See man for mine!" replies a pamper'd goose.

A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink of it deeply, or taste it not, for shallow thoughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking deeply sobers us again.

We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.

Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.

Some praise at morning what they blame at night, but always think the last opinion right.

No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.

Light quirks of music, broken and uneven,Make the soul dance upon a jig to Heav'n.

As some to Church repair, not for the doctrine, but the music there.

By music minds an equal temper know, Nor swell too high, nor sink too low. . . . . Warriors she fires with animated sounds. Pours balm into the bleeding lover's wounds.

All gardening is landscape painting.

True with is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.

The Physician, by the study and inspection of urine and ordure, approves himself in the science; and in like sort should our author accustom and exercise his imagination upon the dregs of nature.

Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.

Aurora now, fair daughter of the dawn, Sprinkled with rosy light the dewy lawn.

Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Good-nature and good-sense must ever join; To err is human, to forgive, divine.

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.

All nature mourns, the skies relent in showers; hushed are the birds, and closed the drooping flowers.

Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use.

Thus God and nature linked the gen'ral frame, And bade self-love and social be the same.

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

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.

Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.

One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.