Alexander Pope Quotes About Mankind

Quotes about: Mankind

• The proper study of Mankind is Man.

  Alexander Pope

  Men, Occupy Yourself, Literature

  An Essay on Man Epistle 2, l. 1 (1733) See Charron 1

• In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity.

  Alexander Pope

  Christian, Kindness, World

  Alexander Pope, John Wilson Croker (1871). “The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials”, p.424

• If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.

  Alexander Pope

  God, Wise, Men

  'An Essay on Man' Epistle 2 (1733) l. 1.

• There are some solitary wretches who seem to have left the rest of mankind, only, as Eve left Adam, to meet the devil in private.

  Alexander Pope

  Loneliness, Solitude, Devil

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Chalmers (1807). “A Supplementary Volume to the Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Containing Pieces of Poetry, Not Inserted in Warburton's and Warton's Editions : and a Collection of Letters, Now First Published”, p.123

• To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart; To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each Seene, and be what they behold: For this the Tragic Muse first trod the stage.

  Alexander Pope

  Art, Soul, Genius

  'The Rape of the Lock' (1714) canto 1, l. 1

• For forms of government let fools contest; Whate'er is best administer'd is best. For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right. In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity.

  Alexander Pope

  Life, Fighting, Government

  Alexander Pope (1751). “The works of Alexander Pope. With his last corrections, additions, and improvements. Publ. by mr. Warburton. With occasional notes”, p.67

• No writing is good that does not tend to better mankind in some way or other.

  Alexander Pope

  Writing, Doe, Way

  Alexander Pope (1847). “The works of Alexander Pope, with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author [&c.] by W. Roscoe”, p.232

• I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

  Alexander Pope

  Party, Unhappy, Division

  Letter to Edward Blount, 27 August 1714, in George Sherburn (ed.) 'The Correspondence of Alexander Pope' (1956) vol. 1, p. 247

• Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.

  Alexander Pope

  God, Men, Psychology

  An Essay on Man Epistle 2, l. 1 (1733) See Charron 1

• The cabinets of the sick and the closets of the dead have been ransacked to publish private letters and divulge to all mankind the most secret sentiments of friendship.

  Alexander Pope

  Sick, Secret, Letters

• Mankind is unamendable.

  Alexander Pope

  Mankind

  Alexander Pope (1776). “The Works of Alexander Pope Esq”, p.198

• Th' unwilling gratitude of base mankind!

  Alexander Pope

  Gratitude, Mankind, Unwilling

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1856). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope”, p.57

• The time shall come, when, free as seas or wind, Unbounded Thames shall flow for all mankind, Whole nations enter with each swelling tide, And seas but join the regions they divide; Earth's distant ends our glory shall behold, And the new world launch forth to seek the old.

  Alexander Pope

  Wind, Sea, World

  Alexander Pope (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alexander Pope (Illustrated)”, p.139, Delphi Classics

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