The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is, that it gives one the greater freedom of… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Nay, fly to altars; there they'll talk you dead; For fools rush in where angels fear to tread. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Some have at first for wits, then poets passed, Turned critics next, and proved plain fools at last. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Some are bewildered in the maze of schools, And some made coxcombs nature meant but fools. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
For forms of government, let fools contest; Whate'er is best administered, is best. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool. But you yourself may prove to show it, Every fool… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Fool, 'tis in vain from wit to wit to roam: Know, sense, like charity, begins at home. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Dear, damned, distracting town, farewell! Thy fools no more I'll tease: This year in peace, ye critics, dwell, Ye harlots, sleep at… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
So modern 'pothecaries, taught the art By doctor's bills to play the doctor's part, Bold in the practice of mistaken rules, Prescribe,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Why did I write? whose sin to me unknown Dipt me in ink, my parents', or my own? As yet a child,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Thus unlamented pass the proud away, The gaze of fools and pageant of a day; So perish all, whose breast ne'er learn'd… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Search then the ruling passion; there alone, The wild are constant, and the cunning known; The fool consistent, and the false sincere;… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
For forms of government let fools contest; Whate'er is best administer'd is best. For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; His… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
I lose my patience, and I own it too, When works are censur'd, not as bad but new; While if our Elders… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
To pardon those absurdities in ourselves which we cannot suffer in others is neither better nor worse than to be more willing… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“Out with it, Dunciad: let the secret pass - That secret to each fool - that he's an ass. The truth once… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgement, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
How do we know that we have a right to kill creatures that we are so little above, as dogs, for our curiosity or… — Alexander Pope Copy Share
To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart; To make mankind, in conscious virtue… — Alexander Pope Copy Share
Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well. — Alexander Pope Copy Share
For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest. — Alexander Pope Copy Share
Like following life through creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment you detect. — Alexander Pope Copy Share
When two people compliment each other with the choice of anything, each of them generally gets that which he likes least. — Alexander Pope Copy Share
Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd and make the learned smile. — Alexander Pope Copy Share
She went from opera, park, assembly, play, To morning walks, and prayers three hours a day. To part her time 'twixt reading and bohea,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share
The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is, that it gives one the greater freedom of playing the… — Alexander Pope Copy Share
Then say not Man's imperfect,Heav'n in fault; Say rather, Man's as perfect ashe ought: — Alexander Pope Copy Share
First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same: Unerring nature, still divinely bright, One clear, unchanged,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share
Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me? — Alexander Pope Copy Share
