Tag: Alexander Pope
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Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
Alexander Pope
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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
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A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead.
Alexander Pope
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For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.
Alexander Pope
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Nature and nature’s laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!
Alexander Pope
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The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.
Alexander Pope
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Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.
Alexander Pope
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be blest.
Alexander Pope
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
Alexander Pope
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The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.
Alexander Pope