Alexander Pope
English Poet, May 21, 1688 - May 30, 1744
“For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.”
“Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.”
“A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.”
“Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.”
“No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.”
“Men, some to business take, some to pleasure take; but every woman is at heart a rake.”
“For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.”
“The pride of aiming at more knowledge, and pretending to more perfection, is the cause of Man's error and misery.”
“Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!.”
“Be sure yourself and your own reach to know How far your genius taste and learning go.”
“The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.”
“Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.”
“No one should be ashamed to admit he is wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.”
