The proper study of Mankind is Man.
More Quotes from Alexander Pope:
Where'er you walk, cool gales shall fan the glade, Trees, where you sit, shall crowd into a shade Whereer you tread, the blushing flow'rs shall rise, And all things flourish where you turn your eyes.Alexander Pope
From pride, from pride, our very reas'ning springs;
Account for moral, as for nat'ral things:
Why charge we Heav'n in those, in these acquit?
Alexander Pope
Yet write, oh write me all, that I may join
Griefs to thy griefs, and echo sighs to thine.
Alexander Pope
Let standard-authors, thus, like trophies borne, Appear more glorious as more hacked and torn.
Alexander Pope
Poets heap Virtues, Painters Gems at will,
And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill.
Alexander Pope
Hell was built on spite, and Heaven on pride.
Alexander Pope
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