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Alexander Pope Quotes: 16

Wit is the lowest form of humor.
Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be blest.
So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
To err is human, to forgive, divine.
An Essay on Criticism
A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.
A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
A little learning is a dangerous thing.Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring;There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,and drinking largely sobers us again.
An Essay on Criticism
Wise wretch! with pleasures too refined to please,With too much spirit to be e'er at ease,With too much quickness ever to be taught,With too much thinking to have common thought:You purchase pain with all that joy can give,And die of nothing but a rage to live.
Moral Essays
Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
The Rape of the Lock
Hope springs eternal in the human breast; Man never Is, but always To be blest. The soul, uneasy, and confin'd from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
An Essay on Man
To wake the soul by tender strokes of art,To raise the genius, and to mend the heart
If I am right, Thy grace impartStill in the right to stay;If I am wrong, O, teach my heartTo find that better way!
Moral Essays
Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night:God said, Let Newton be! and all was light.
Order is heaven's first law.
An Essay on Man