Quotes by English/England authors (page 57)

"Act well your part, there all the honour lies"

Alexander Pope, Poet

"A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left"

Alexander Pope, Poet

"A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits"

Alexander Pope, Poet

"A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity"

Alexander Pope, Poet

"A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature"

Alexander Pope, Poet

"Woman's at best a contradiction still"

Alexander Pope, Poet

"Wit is the lowest form of humor"

Alexander Pope, Poet

"Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be"

Alexander Pope, Poet

"What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease"

Alexander Pope, Poet

"Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever"

Alexander Pope, Poet

"True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can"

Alexander Pope, Poet

"True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those who move easiest have learned to dance"

Alexander Pope, Poet

"To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake"

Alexander Pope, Poet

"The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres"

Alexander Pope, Poet

"The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave"

Alexander Pope, Poet

"The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still"

Alexander Pope, Poet

"The proper study of Mankind is Man"

Alexander Pope, Poet

"The most positive men are the most credulous"

Alexander Pope, Poet

"The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more"

Alexander Pope, Poet

"The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine"

Alexander Pope, Poet

"The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person"

Alexander Pope, Poet

"The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice"

Alexander Pope, Poet

"Passions are the gales of life"

Alexander Pope, Poet

"Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few"

Alexander Pope, Poet

"Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after"

Alexander Pope, Poet

"One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit"

Alexander Pope, Poet

"On wrongs swift vengeance waits"

Alexander Pope, Poet

"Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child"

Alexander Pope, Poet

"Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance"

Alexander Pope, Poet

"Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind"

Alexander Pope, Poet

"Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind"

Alexander Pope, Poet

"Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause"

Alexander Pope, Poet

"Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man"

Alexander Pope, Poet

"Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below"

Alexander Pope, Poet

"In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside"

Alexander Pope, Poet

"If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business"

Alexander Pope, Poet

"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 for the gain of a few"

Alexander Pope, Poet

"Gentle dullness ever loves a joke"

Alexander Pope, Poet

"Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly"

Alexander Pope, Poet

"For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right"

Alexander Pope, Poet

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