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“To err is human; to forgive, divine.”
-- Alexander Pope
#Inspirational #Forgiveness #Letting Go
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“Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.”
-- Alexander Pope
#Helping Others #Volunteer #Woe
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“Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.”
-- Alexander Pope
#Inspirational #Education #Time
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“On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.”
-- Alexander Pope
#Life #Ocean #Passion
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“Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.”
-- Alexander Pope
#Wisdom #Fear #Angel
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“Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.”
-- Alexander Pope
#Wise #Honesty #Women
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“Act well your part, there all the honour lies.”
-- Alexander Pope
#Lying #Theatre #Deceit
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“A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.”
-- Alexander Pope
#Education #Spring #Learning
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“Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.”
-- Alexander Pope
#Hope #Spring #Men
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“An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.”
-- Alexander Pope
#Motivation #Lying #Excuse
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“In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity.”
-- Alexander Pope
#World #Charity #Hope And Faith
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“A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.”
-- Alexander Pope
#Art #Tag #Theory
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“Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgement, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is PRIDE, the never-failing vice of fools.”
-- Alexander Pope
#Failure #Pride #Men
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“He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.”
-- Alexander Pope
#Lying #Twenties #Tasks
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“Aurora now, fair daughter of the dawn, Sprinkled with rosy light the dewy lawn.”
-- Alexander Pope
#Daughter #Nature #Light
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“All nature is but art unknown to thee.”
-- Alexander Pope
#Art #Nature #Literature
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“Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.”
-- Alexander Pope
#Life #Light #Sight
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“Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.”
-- Alexander Pope
#Literature #Praise #Satire
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“He best can paint them who shall feel them most.”
-- Alexander Pope
#Painting #Paint #Feels
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“The sound must seem an echo to the sense.”
-- Alexander Pope
#Echoes #Sound
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“All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.”
-- Alexander Pope
#Life #God #Nature
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“Fools admire, but men of sense approve.”
-- Alexander Pope
#Men #Stupidity #Criticism
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“But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.”
-- Alexander Pope
#Temptation #Literature #Satan
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“Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.”
-- Alexander Pope
#Friendship #Trust #Knowledge
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“The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.”
-- Alexander Pope
#Rivers #Vanity #Life Is Like
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“I am his Highness' dog at Kew; Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?”
-- Alexander Pope
#Dog #Praying #Highness
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“True disputants are like true sportsmen: their whole delight is in the pursuit.”
-- Alexander Pope
#Athlete #Delight #Pursuit
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“Beauty draws us with a single hair.”
-- Alexander Pope
#Hair #Draws
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“The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.”
-- Alexander Pope
#Eggs #Cooking #Vulgar
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“Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.”
-- Alexander Pope
#Merit #Firsts #Dignity
