Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Pleas'd look forward, pleas'd to look behind,And count each birthday with a grateful mind. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Talk what you will of taste, my friend, you'll find two of a face as soon as of a mind. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
By music minds an equal temper know, Nor swell too high, nor sink too low. . . . . Warriors she fires… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Whate'er the talents, or howe'er designed, We hang one jingling padlock on the mind. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise and rudely great... He hangs between; in doubt to act… — 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
T is true,t is certain; man though dead retains, Part of himself: the immortal mind remains. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Hope springs eternal in the human breast; Man never Is, but always To be Blest. The soul, uneasy, and confin'd from home,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
A perfect Judge will read each work of Wit With the same spirit that its author writ: Survey the Whole, nor seek… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fix'd: 't is fix'd as in a frost; contracted all, retiring to the breast;… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Love, Hope, and Joy, fair pleasure's smiling train, Hate, Fear, and Grief, the family of pain, These mix'd with art, and to… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Tis true, 'tis certain; man, though dead, retains Part of himself; the immortal mind remains. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
True Wit is Nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd; Something whose truth convinced at sight… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
We ought, in humanity, no more to despise a man for the misfortunes of the mind than for those of the body,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learn'd or brave. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Who know but He, whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms, Pours fierce ambition in… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Lo! the poor Indian! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind; His soul proud Science never… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The best way to prove the clearness of our mind, is by showing its faults; as when a stream discovers the dirt… — 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
