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

#being #consists #easy #every #making

Woman's at best a contradiction still. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#contradiction #still #woman

And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#enlargements #heard #made #new #something

And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#lie #masquerade #tis #truth

Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#child #kindly #law #nature #pleased

But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state? ↗

— Alexander Pope

#fate #former #future #his #knows

Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#equal #extremes #join #man #mysterious

Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#honor #men #merit #other #ourselves

For fools rush in where angels fear to tread. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#fear #fools #rush #tread #where

To err is human; to forgive, divine. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#divine #err #forgive #human #to err is human