To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart; To make mankind, in… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
No writing is good that does not tend to better mankind in some way or other. — 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
There are some solitary wretches who seem to have left the rest of mankind, only, as Eve left Adam, to meet the… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The time shall come, when, free as seas or wind, Unbounded Thames shall flow for all mankind, Whole nations enter with each… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The cabinets of the sick and the closets of the dead have been ransacked to publish private letters and divulge to all… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“Know then thyself, presume not God to scan, The proper study of mankind is Man. Placed on this isthmus of a middle… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Presumptuous Man! the reason wouldst thou find,Why form'd so weak, so little, and so blind?First, if thou canst, the harder reason guess,Why… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man. — 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 Image
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 Image
Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Like following life through creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment you detect. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
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 Image
Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd and make the learned smile. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
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 Image
I am satisfied to trifle away my time, rather than let it stick by me. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
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 Image
