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Mankind Quotes by Alexander Pope
- In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity.
- There are some solitary wretches who seem to have left the rest of mankind, only, as Eve left Adam, to meet the devil in private.
- No writing is good that does not tend to better mankind in some way or other.
- If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly…
- To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart; To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold,…
- For forms of government let fools contest; Whate'er is best administer'd is best. For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong…
- Th' unwilling gratitude of base mankind!
- The time shall come, when, free as seas or wind, Unbounded Thames shall flow for all mankind, Whole nations enter with each swelling tide, And…
- So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
- I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many…
- The proper study of Mankind is Man.
- Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.
More Mankind Quotes
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- Most people would rather give than get affection. — Aristotle
- This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind. — Neil Armstrong
- Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind. — Neil Armstrong
- Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance. — Henry Ward Beecher
- Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of… — Saint Augustine
- Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. — Saint Augustine
- Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies,… — Jane Austen