Sir, I admit your gen'ral rule
that every poet is a fool:
but you yourself may serve to show it
that every fool is not a poet.
Alexander Pope

A heap of dust alone remains of thee.
Tis all thou art,
and all theproud shall be.
Alexander Pope

There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the
quaintness of wit.- Alexander Pope, 1688 - 1744

It is with narrow-souled people as with narrow-necked bottles: the
less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring it out.
~Alexander Pope, Miscellanies Vol 2 (1727)

Words are like leaves, and where they most abound,
Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found.
Alexander Pope, Essay on Criticism

To err is human; to forgive, divine --Alexander Pope, from An Essay
on Criticism .

The ruling passion, be it what it will,
The ruling passion conquers reason still.
--Alexander Pope (1688-1744)_Moral Essays_ [1731-1735]

Honour and shame from no condition rise;
Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
Alexander Pope, "An Essay on Man" Epistle IV, 1733-34

Hope springs eternal in the human breast:
Man never is, but always to be blest.
The soul, uneasy and confined from home,
Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
Alexander Pope. 1688-1744. Essay on Man. Epistle i.Line 95.

Nature, and Nature's laws lay hid in night;
God said, 'Let Newton be!'and all was light.
Alexander Pope (1688-1744) Epitaphs.

Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer,
And, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer;
Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike,
Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike;
Alike reserv'd to blame or to commend,
A tim'rous foe, and a suspicious friend;
Dreading e'en fools, by flatterers besieged,
And so obliging that he ne'er oblig'd;
Like Cato, give his little Senate laws,
And sit attentive to his own applause.
--Alexander Pope,_Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot_

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

Vice is a monster of so frightful mein
As to be hated needs but to be seen;
Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face,
We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Alexander Pope

Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be
disappointed.--Alexander Pope (1688-1744) Letter to Gay, Oct. 6,
1727.
--
Graham J Weeks  M.R.Pharm.S.
http://www.weeks-g.dircon.co.uk/  Graham's Homepage
9106 quotes 628 topics 2106 authors indexed 761 links
http://www.donkeyworks.com/ipc/  Our church
--------------------------------------------------------------------------- -

To have the state as servant and not as master - Margaret Thatcher
--------------------------------------------------------------------------- -