15 Inspirational Quotations by Alexander Pope

Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.

Alexander Pope

Talk what you will of taste, you will find two of a face as soon as two of a mind.

Alexander Pope

Two purposes in human nature rule. Self-love to urge, and reason to restrain.

Alexander Pope

Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.

Alexander Pope

When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old; and when we are old, we I perceive it is too late to live as we proposed.

Alexander Pope

I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts.

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

I would tear out my own heart if it had no better disposition than to love only myself, and laugh at all my neighbors.

Alexander Pope

Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.

Alexander Pope

In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind’s concern is charity.

Alexander Pope

It is very natural for a young friend and a young lover to think the persons they love have nothing to do but to please them.

Alexander Pope

It is with our judgments as with our watches: no two go just alike, yet each believes his own.

Alexander Pope

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.

Alexander Pope

Never elated when someone’s oppressed, never dejected when another one’s blessed.

Alexander Pope

The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Alexander Pope