Alexander Pope

Act well your part, there all the honour lies. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#honour #lies #part #well #your

How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#forgetting #forgot #happy #how #lot

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

— Alexander Pope

#chance #comes #dance #ease #easiest

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

— Alexander Pope

#every #foe #friend #know #make

Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#merit #sight #soul #strike #wins

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! ↗

— Alexander Pope

#brain #chain #chambers #countless #hidden

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

— Alexander Pope

#first #last #lay #new #nor

But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#now #poor #rich #satan #tempts

Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#continually #days #example #fact #fools

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

— Alexander Pope

#common #common mind #education #forms #inclined