Alexander Pope Quotes
I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few. If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business. 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. Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools. Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below. Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man. Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause. Lo, what huge heaps of littleness around! Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind. Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise! Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire. Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing. Men dream of courtship, but in wedlock wake. Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot. Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light! Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed. Never find fault with the absent. Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can. No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.
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