Alexander Pope

False happiness is like false money it passes for a long time as well as the true and serves some ordinary occasions but when it is brought to the touch we find the lightness and alloy and feel the loss.

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

He mounts the storm and walks upon the wind.

There is nothing meritorious but virtue and friendship.

How shall I love the sin yet keep the sense And love the offender yet detest the offence?

For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

The feast of reason and the flow of soul.

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

An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie for an excuse is a lie guarded.

To err is human to forgive divine.

Thus education forms the common mind Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.

'Tis education forms the common mind Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.

There St. John mingles with my friendly bowl The feat of reason and the flow of soul.

Men would be angels Angels would be gods.

Till tired he sleeps and life's poor play is o'er.

All are but parts of one stupendous whole Whose body Nature is and God the soul.

When two people compliment each other with the choice of anything each of them generally gets that which he likes least.

For fools admire but men of sense approve.