Category: Quote of the Day

Nature and Nature’s laws lay hid in night:

God said, “Let Newton be!” and all was light.

Alexander Pope

There various news I heard of love and strife,

Of peace and war, health, sickness, death, and life,

Of loss and gain, of famine and of store,

Of storms at sea, and travels on the shore,

Of prodigies, and portents seen in air,

Of fires and plagues, and stars with blazing hair,

Of turns of fortune, changes in the state,

The fall of favourites, projects of the great,

Of aid mismanagements, taxations new:

All neither wholly false, nor wholly true.

Alexander Pope

To err is human, to forgive divine.

Alexander Pope

I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another’s misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.

Alexander Pope

Happy the man whose wish and care

A few paternal acres bound,

Content to breathe his native air

In his own ground.

Alexander Pope

Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed

Alexander Pope

A little Learning is a dang’rous Thing;

Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring:

There shallow Draughts intoxicate the Brain,

And drinking largely sobers us again.

Alexander Pope

Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? in every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part.

Alexander Pope

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance,

As those move easiest who have learn’d to dance.

Alexander Pope