Date: 1711

"Of all the causes which conspire to blind / Man's erring judgment, and misguide the mind,/ What the weak head with strongest biass rules, / Is Pride, the never-failing vice of fools."

— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)

Date: 1711

"For as in bodies, thus in souls we find / What wants in blood and spirits, swell'd with wind: / Pride, where Wit fails, steps in to our defence, / And fills up all the mighty void of sense"

— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)

Date: 1711

"A little Learning is a dang'rous thing; / Drink deep, or taste not the Piërian spring: / There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, / And drinking largely sobers us again."

— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)

Date: 1715

"Longinus in his 22d Chapter commends this Figure, as causing a Reader to become a Spectator, and keeping his Mind fixed upon the Action before him."

— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)

Date: 1715

"And yet no dire Presage so wounds my Mind, / My Mother's Death, the Ruin of my Kind, / Not Priam 's hoary Hairs defil'd with Gore, / Not all my Brothers gasping on the Shore; / As thine, Andromache"

— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)

Date: 1715

"To cast one's Eye, means but to reflect upon, or to revolve in one's Mind"

— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)

Date: 1715

"Yet should the Fears that wary Mind suggests / Spread their cold Poison thro' our Soldier's Breasts, / My Javelin can revenge so base a Part, / And free the Soul that quivers in thy Heart."

— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)

Date: 1715

"Ill-fated Paris ! Slave to Womankind, / As smooth of Face as fraudulent of Mind"

— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)

Date: 1715

"He sprinkles healing Balmes, to Anguish kind, / And adds Discourse, the Med'cine of the Mind."

— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)

Date: 1715

"He turns the radiant Gift; and feeds his Mind / On all th'immortal Artist had design'd"

— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)