| 295 Famous Quotes by Alexander Pope
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“A bachelor is one who enjoys the chase but does not eat the game.”
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“False happiness is like false money; it passes for a long time as well as the true, and serves some ordinary occasions; but when it is brought to the touch, we find the lightness and alloy, and feel the loss.”
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“The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.”
Harmony Quotes |
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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”
Politeness Quotes |
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“Wit is the lowest form of humor.”
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“One science only will one genius fit,
So vast is art, so narrow human wit.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Essay of Criticism (pt. I, l. 60)
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“To err is human, to forgive, divine.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Essay on Criticism
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“Envy will merit as its shade pursue,
But like a shadow, proves the substance true.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Essay on Criticism (pt. II, l. 266)
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“Men would be angels, angels would be gods.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Essay on Man (ep. I, l. 126)
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“Hope springs eternal in the human breast,
Man never is, but always to be blest.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Essay on Man (ep. I, l. 95)
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“Chaos of thought and passion all confused.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Essay on Man (ep. II, l. 13)
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“Manners with Fortunes, Humours turn with Climes,
Tenets with Books, and Principles with Times.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Moral Essays (ep. I, pt. II)
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“Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer,
And without sneering teach the rest to sneer;
Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike,
Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike;
Alike reserv'd to blame, or to commend,
A tim'rous foe, and a suspicious friend.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Prologue to Satires (l. 201)
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“So obliging that he ne'er obliged.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Prologue to Satires (l. 207)
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“No creature smarts so little as a fool.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Prologue to Satires (l. 84)
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“One murder made a villain,
Millions a hero.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Prologue to Satires (l. 84)
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“He that fights and runs away,
Will live to fight another day;
For he that runs may fight again,
Which he can never do that's slain.
Deeper to wound she shuns the fight;
She drops her arms, to gain the field:
Secures her conquest by her flight:
And triumphs when she seems to yield.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Prologue to Satires (l. 84)
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“Love and life are for to-day.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Prologue to Satires (l. 84)
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“Love, well thou know'st no partnership allows,
Cupid averse rejects divided vows.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Prologue to Satires (l. 84)
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“Such as she is, who died to-day,
Such thou alas! mayst be to-morrow.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Prologue to Satires (l. 84)
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“To John I owed great obligation:
But John unhandsomely thought fit
To publish it to all the nation;
Sure John and I are more than quit.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Prologue to Satires (l. 84)
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“Yet still a sad, good Christian at the heart.”
Christianity Quotes Source: Moral Essay (ep. II, l. 68)
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“'Tis with our judgments as our watches, none
Go just alike, yet each believes his own.”
Judgment Quotes Source: Essay on Criticism (l. 9)
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“The blest to-day is as completely so,
As who began a thousand years ago.”
Blessings Quotes Source: Essay on Man (ep. I, l. 75)
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“Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength.”
Growth Quotes Source: Essay on Man (ep. II, l. 136)
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Alexander Pope Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
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