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"Our rural ancestors, with little blest,
Patient of labour when the end was rest,
Indulged the day that housed their annual grain,
With feasts, and off'rings, and a thankful strain."
- Alexander Pope, More quotation on Thanksgiving. | |
"A man should never be ashamed to own he has been wrong, which is but saying, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday."
- Alexander Pope. | |
"Be thou the first true merit to be friend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend."
- Alexander Pope, More quotation on Friendship. | |
"Fools admire, but men of sense approve."
- Alexander Pope. | |
"He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one."
- Alexander Pope. | |
"To err is human, to forgive divine."
- Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism. | |
"Be not the first by whom the new are tried,
Nor yet the last to lay the old aside."
- Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism, 1711. | |
"Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed."
- Alexander Pope, Letter to Gay, October 6, 1727. |
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