33 Most Inspiring Alexander Pope Quotes About Success

“To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.” ― Alexander Pope

“Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.” ― Alexander Pope

“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

“You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.” ― Alexander Pope

“Teach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.” ― Alexander Pope

“Act well your part; there all the honour lies.” ― Alexander Pope

“Order is heaven’s first law.” ― Alexander Pope

“Our judgments, like our watches, none go just alike, yet each believes his own.” ― Alexander Pope

“If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.” ― Alexander Pope

“Chaos of thought and passion, all confus’d.” ― Alexander Pope

“What reason weaves, by passion is undone.” ― Alexander Pope

“Know thy own point: this kind, this due degree Of blindness, weakness, Heav’n bestows on thee.” ― Alexander Pope

“Know thyself, presume not God to scan; the proper study of mankind is man.“ Alexander Pope

“A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.” ― Alexander Pope

“Death, only death can break the lasting chain; and here, even then, shall my cold dust remain.” ― Alexander Pope

“An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie;for an excuse is a lie guarded” ― Alexander Pope

“On life’s vast ocean diversely we ail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.” ― Alexander Pope

“Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.” ― Alexander Pope

“Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.” ― Alexander Pope

“Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.” ― Alexander Pope

“Where beams of imagination play, The memory’s soft figures melt away.” ― Alexander Pope

“If I am right, thy grace impart; Still in the right to stay; If I am wrong, O, teach my heart to find that better way!” Alexander Pope

“Words are like leaves; and where they most abound; Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found.” ― Alexander Pope

“An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie” ― Alexander Pope

“While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep.” ― Alexander Pope

“Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.” ― Alexander Pope

“True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learned to dance.” ― Alexander Pope

“Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.” ― Alexander Pope

“Nature and nature’s laws lay hid in night.” ― Alexander Pope

“Of all the causes which conspire to blind man’s erring judgment, and misguide the mind, what the weak head with strongest bias rules, is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.” ― Alexander Pope

“Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.” ― Alexander Pope

“To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart” ― Alexander Pope

“A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.” ― Alexander Pope

“Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.” ― Alexander Pope

“A little learning is a dangerous thing. Drink deep, or taste not the Permian Spring; There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking largely sobers us again.” ― Alexander Pope

“A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.” ― Alexander Pope

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