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Alexander Pope Quotes

Alexander Pope

English poet and satirist

Nationality: English
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Type: Poet
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Birth: 1688-1744
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Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.
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Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
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Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.
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Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
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We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of
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True disputants are like true sportsman: their whole delight is in the pursuit.
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When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last.
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Sure of their qualities and demanding praise, more go to ruined fortunes than are raised.
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Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.
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Let sinful bachelors their woes deplore; full well they merit all they feel, and more: unaw by precepts, human or divine, like birds and beasts, promiscuously they join.
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Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.
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Honor and shame from no condition rise; Act well your part, there all the honor lies.
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How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
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Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
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True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.
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Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd; if right, I kiss'd the rod.
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A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.
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Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part.
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Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
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Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
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A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring; There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain; And drinking largely sobers us again.
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Why has not man a microscopic eye? For the plain reason man is not a fly.
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I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.
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What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.
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We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.
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The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
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Fools rush in where Angels fear to tread.
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How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?
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To err is human, to forgive is divine.
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Many people are capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
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And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.
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At every word a reputation dies.
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For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.
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Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
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Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.
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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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Health consists with temperance alone.
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An honest man's the noblest work of God.
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Act well your part; there all honor lies.
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There goes a saying, and 'twas shrewdly said, ''Old fish at table, but young flesh in bed.''
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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.
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No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.
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Die and endow a college or a cat.
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But thousands die without or this or that, die, and endow a college, or a cat: To some, indeed, Heaven grants the happier fate, Tenrich a bastard, or a son they hate.
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For virtue's self may too much zeal be had; the worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
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You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there's no body at home.
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It is with our judgments as with our watches: no two go just alike, yet each believes his own.
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Curse on all laws, but those that love has made.
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Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.
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They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.
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Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!
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Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.
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Teach me to feel another's woe. To hide the fault I see: that the mercy I show to others; that mercy also show to me.
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A man should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
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Two purposes in human nature rule. Self-love to urge, and reason to restrain.
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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
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Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.
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Passions are the gales of life.
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The ruling passion, be it what it will, The ruling passion conquers reason still.
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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.
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All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye.
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At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.
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Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel.
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On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.
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The scripture in times of disputes is like an open town in times of war, which serves in differently the occasions of both parties.
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Learn to live well, or fairly make your will; you played, and loved, and ate, and drunk your fill: walk sober off; before a sprightlier age comes tittering on, and shoves you from the stage: leave such to trifle with more grace and ease, whom Folly please
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Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.
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To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.
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But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.
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True wit is nature to advantage dressed, what oft was thought, but never so well expressed.
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Most women have no characters at all.
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Ten censure wrong, for one that writes amiss.
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Most authors steal their works, or buy.
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Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learned to dance. 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence. The sound must seem an echo to the sense.
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