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Person·Alexander Pope✕clear

Hope springs eternal in the human breast; Man never is, but always to be blessed.

An Essay on Man · 1733

★ 8.8

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

An Essay on Criticism · 1711

★ 7.0

To err is human, to forgive divine.

An Essay on Criticism · 1711

★ 7.0

Woman's at best a contradiction still.

Letters of Alexander Pope · 1735

★ 5.4

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again.

An Essay on Criticism · 1711

★ 5.2

The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, And wretches hang that jurymen may dine.

The Rape of the Lock · 1714

★ 4.5

Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

1727

★ 3.7

Thus let me live, unseen, unknown; Thus unlamented let me die; Steal from the world, and not a stone Tell where I lie.

1700

★ 3.6

Happy the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air, In his own ground.

1700

★ 3.6

True wit is Nature to advantage dressed, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.

An Essay on Criticism · 1711

★ 3.6

He who tells a lie, is not sensible how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.

1727

★ 3.6

How often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part.

1732

★ 3.6

For forms of government let fools contest; Whate'er is best administered is best.

An Essay on Man · 1733

★ 3.6

All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body nature is, and God the soul.

An Essay on Man · 1733

★ 3.6

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

1733

★ 3.6

Teach me to feel another's wo, To hide the fault I see: That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me.

1738

★ 3.6

I think it was a generous thought, and one that flowed from an exalted mind, that it was not improbable but God might be delighted with the various methods of worshipping him, which divided the whole world.

1716

★ 3.5

All nature is but art unknown to thee, All chance, direction which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good.

An Essay on Man · 1733

★ 3.5

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan, The proper study of mankind is man. Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise, and rudely great: With too much knowledge for the skeptic side, With too much weakness for the stoic's pride, He hangs between; in doubt to act, or rest; In doubt to deem himself a god or beast; In doubt his mind or body to prefer; Born but to die, and reas'ning but to err; Alike in ignorance, his reason such, Whether he thinks too little or too much; Chaos of thought and passion, all confused; Still by himself abused, or disabused; Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled; The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!

An Essay on Man · 1733

★ 3.5

An honest man's the noblest work of God.

An Essay on Man · 1733

★ 2.9

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