Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought. – Alexander Pope
For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can’t be wrong whose life is in the right. – Alexander Pope
If a man’s character is to be abused there’s nobody like a relative to do the business. – Alexander Pope
How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence? – Alexander Pope
A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature. – Alexander Pope
Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies. – Alexander Pope
What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease. – Alexander Pope
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. – Alexander Pope
A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring. – Alexander Pope
Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly. – Alexander Pope
To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th’ observer’s sake. – Alexander Pope
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
Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me? – Alexander Pope
True politeness consists in being easy one’s self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can. – Alexander Pope
A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left. – Alexander Pope