79 Quotes By Alexander Pope


Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
Alexander Pope on fear

For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
Alexander Pope on fear

To err is human to forgive, divine.
Alexander Pope on forgiveness

But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?
Alexander Pope on future

A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.
Alexander Pope on god

All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
Alexander Pope on god

Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!
Alexander Pope on god

An honest man's the noblest work of God.
Alexander Pope on god

Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.
Alexander Pope on god

Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.
Alexander Pope on god

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan The proper study of mankind is man.
Alexander Pope on god

For Forms of Government let fools contest whatever is best administered is best.
Alexander Pope on government

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 on great

Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
Alexander Pope on happiness

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

Health consists with temperance alone.
Alexander Pope on health

Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
Alexander Pope on hope

Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.
Alexander Pope on hope

Wit is the lowest form of humor.
Alexander Pope on humor

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.
Alexander Pope on intelligence