Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Alexander Pope Quotes
ArtSkillPracticeWriting True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.
UnityNatureSpirituality All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
ExtremesNatureHumanityPurposeMystery Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use.
HappinessDesireComparisonHuman Nature Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.
TemptationWealthPovertyStrategy Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.
TemptationWealthCunningEvil But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.
LoveFriendshipRelationship No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.
HonorDutyIntegrity Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.
LearningUnderstandingHumilityGrowth Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
ProgressGrowthFundamentals Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.
EmpathyForgivenessMercy Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
HappinessInnocenceSolitude How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
VirtueViceMoralityDiscernment The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.
Self-PraiseDeceptionMeritHypocrisy Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men.
VirtueMediocrityEffort Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.
PassionReasonControl The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.
ArtTheoryAuthenticityValue A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.
GeniusTasteCreationWisdom Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.
IgnoranceSuperficialityMisguided Learning The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.
AmbitionDualityCharacter The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.
GovernmentAdministrationEffectiveness For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.
FaithRighteousness For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.
SpiritualityNatureInnocence Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.
EducationInfluenceCharacter Development 'Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.
CommunicationEvolutionPerspective And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.
Gentle MannersMild AffectionsWitSimplicityVirtue Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.
HealthStressHappinessModeration What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.
HappinessKnowledgeCuriosityContentmentStates Of Being The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.