Alexander Pope

Those half-learn'd witlings, num'rous in our isle As half-form'd insects on the banks of Nile

Happy the man, whose wish and careA few paternal acres bound,Content to breathe his native airIn his own ground.

Trust not yourself; but your defects to know,Make use of ev'ry friend__nd ev'ry foe.

Where beams of imagination play,The memory's soft figures melt away.

While pensive poets painful vigils keep,Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep.

A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound,Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.

Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night:God said, Let Newton be! and all was light.

chaos of thought and passion, all confus'd.

What Reason weaves, by Passion is undone.

If it be the chief point of friendship to comply with a friend's notions and inclinations he possesses this is an eminent degree; he lies down when I sit, and walks when I walk, which is more that many good friends can pretend to do.

If I am right, Thy grace impartStill in the right to stay;If I am wrong, O, teach my heartTo find that better way!

True wit is nature to advantage dressed;What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.

To err is human, to forgive, divine.

What then remains, but well our power to use,And keep good humour still whate__r we lose?And trust me, dear, good humour can prevail,When airs, and flights, and screams, and scolding fail.Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll;Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul

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

Oh let me live my own! and die so too! ("To live and die is all I have to do:") Maintain a poet's dignity and ease, And see what friends, and read what books I please.

We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.