On life's vast ocean diversely we sail,
Reason the card, but passion is the gale.Alexander Pope · An Essay on Man; Moral Essays and Satires
Read the saying and check its sourcesQuotations by Alexander Pope
21 sayings with source references.
Know then this truth (enough for man to know), — Virtue alone is happiness below.Alexander Pope · An Essay on Man; Moral Essays and Satires
Read the saying and check its sourcesExtremes in nature equal ends produce;
In man they join to some mysterious use.Alexander Pope · An Essay on Man; Moral Essays and Satires
Read the saying and check its sourcesWhat can ennoble sots or slaves or cowards?
Alas! not all the blood of all the Howards.Alexander Pope · An Essay on Man; Moral Essays and Satires
Read the saying and check its sourcesFor modes of faith let graceless zealots fight;
His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.Alexander Pope · An Essay on Man; Moral Essays and Satires
Read the saying and check its sourcesFor forms of government let fools contest;
Whate'er is best administered is best:For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight;
His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.
In faith and hope the world will disagree,
But all mankind's concern is charity.Alexander Pope · An Essay on Man; Moral Essays and Satires
Read the saying and check its sourcesA wit's a feather, and a chief a rod;
An honest man's the noblest work of God.Alexander Pope · An Essay on Man; Moral Essays and Satires
Read the saying and check its sourcesTrace science then, with modesty thy guide.Alexander Pope · An Essay on Man; Moral Essays and Satires
Read the saying and check its sourcesWhy has not man a microscopic eye?
For this plain reason,—man is not a fly.Alexander Pope · An Essay on Man; Moral Essays and Satires
Read the saying and check its sourcesAll 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;
And, spite of pride, in erring reason's spite,
One truth is clear, Whatever is, is right.Alexander Pope · An Essay on Man; Moral Essays and Satires
Read the saying and check its sources'Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.Alexander Pope · An Essay on Man; Moral Essays and Satires
Read the saying and check its sourcesWorth makes the man, and want of it the fellow;
The rest is all but leather or prunella.Alexander Pope · An Essay on Man; Moral Essays and Satires
Read the saying and check its sourcesVice is a monster of so frightful mien,
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 · An Essay on Man; Moral Essays and Satires
Read the saying and check its sourcesAll are but parts of one stupendous whole,
Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.Alexander Pope · An Essay on Man; Moral Essays and Satires
Read the saying and check its sourcesReason's whole pleasure, all the joys of Sense,
Lie in three words, Health, Peace, and Competence.
But Health consists with Temperance alone,
And Peace, oh Virtue! Peace is all thy own.Alexander Pope · An Essay on Man; Moral Essays and Satires
Read the saying and check its sourcesTruths would you teach, or save a sinking land?
All fear, none aid you, and few understand.Alexander Pope · An Essay on Man; Moral Essays and Satires
Read the saying and check its sourcesKnow then thyself, presume not God to scan;
The proper study of mankind is man.Alexander Pope · An Essay on Man; Moral Essays and Satires
Read the saying and check its sourcesForce first made Conquest, and that conquest, Law.Alexander Pope · An Essay on Man; Moral Essays and Satires
Read the saying and check its sourcesSay first, of God above or man below,
What can we reason but from what we know?Alexander Pope · An Essay on Man; Moral Essays and Satires
Read the saying and check its sourcesHonour and shame from no condition rise;
Act well your part, there all the honour lies.Alexander Pope · An Essay on Man; Moral Essays and Satires
Read the saying and check its sourcesJust as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.Alexander Pope · An Essay on Man; Moral Essays and Satires
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