Alexander Pope

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.

Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.

Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.

Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.

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

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.

So vast is art, so narrow human wit.

Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.

The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.

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!

Act well your part, there all the honour lies.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.

How do we know that we have a right to kill creatures that we are so little above, as dogs, for our curiosity or even for some use to us?

In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fixed, 'tis fixed as in a frost.

There is nothing that is meritorious but virtue and friendship.

Men, some to business, some to pleasure take; But every woman is at heart a rake.

To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart; To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each Seene, and be what they behold: For this the Tragic Muse first trod the stage.

A brave man struggling in the storms of fate, And greatly falling with a falling state.