1. Alexander Pope - “Why has not man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason: man is not a fly.”

---

2. Alexander Pope - “What can ennoble sots or slaves or cowards? Alas! not all the blood of all the Howards.”

---

3. Alexander Pope - “Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees.”

---

4. Alexander Pope - “Virtuous and vicious every man must be,— Few in the extreme, but all in the degree.”

---

5. Alexander Pope - “Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, Content to dwell in decencies forever.”

---

6. Alexander Pope - “Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land? All fear, none aid you, and few understand.”

---

7. Alexander Pope - “Together let us beat this ample field, Try what the open, what the covert yield.”

---

8. Alexander Pope - “To rest, the cushion and soft dean invite, Who never mentions hell to ears polite.”

---

9. Alexander Pope - “The meeting points the sacred hair dissever From the fair head, forever, and forever! Then flashed the living lightning from her eyes, And screams of horror rend th' affrighted skies.”

---

10. Alexander Pope - “The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.”

---

11. Alexander Pope - “T'is education forms the common mind: Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.”

---

12. Alexander Pope - “Statesman, yet friend to truth! of soul sincere, In action faithful, and in honour clear; Who broke no promise, serv'd no private end, Who gain'd no title, and who lost no friend.”

---

13. Alexander Pope - “So perish all who do the like again.”

---

14. Alexander Pope - “Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise; My footstool earth, my canopy the skies.”

---

15. Alexander Pope - “Say first, of God above or man below, What can we reason but from what we know?”

---

16. Alexander Pope - “Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.”

---

17. Alexander Pope - “One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.”

---

18. Alexander Pope - “One science only will one genius fit: So vast is art, so narrow human wit.”

---

19. Alexander Pope - “On life's vast ocean diversely we sail, Reason the card, but passion is the gale.”

---

20. Alexander Pope - “O happiness! our being's end and aim! Good, pleasure, ease, content! whate'er thy name: That something still which prompts the eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die.”

---

21. Alexander Pope - “Never elated when one man 's oppress'd; Never dejected while another 's bless'd.”

---

22. Alexander Pope - “Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times.”

---

23. Alexander Pope - “Know then thyself, presume not God to scan, The proper study of mankind is man.”

---

24. Alexander Pope - “Judge not of actions by their mere effect; Dive to the center, and the cause detect. Great deeds from meanest springs may take their course, And smallest virtues from a mighty source.”

---

25. Alexander Pope - “How loved, how honored once, avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot A heap of dust alone remains of thee 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be!”

---