295 Famous Quotes by Alexander Pope
5/21/1688 - 5/30/1744
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About Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope was an 18th-century English poet, best known for his satirical verse and for his translation of Homer. Famous for his use of the heroic couplet, he is the third-most frequently quoted writer in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, after Shakespeare and Tennyson.
Soon as thy letters trembling I unclose,
That well-known name awakens all my woes.
Post
Quotes, by Alexander Pope , Source: Eloisa to Abelard (l. 29)
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Line after line my gushing eye o'erflow,
Led thro' a said variety of woe:
Now warm in love, now with'ring in my bloom,
Lost in a convent's solitary gloom!
Post
Quotes, by Alexander Pope , Source: Eloisa to Abelard (l. 35)
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Heav'n first taught letters for some wretch's aid,
Some banish'd lover, or some captive maid.
Post
Quotes, by Alexander Pope , Source: Eloisa to Abelard (l. 51)
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We conquered France, but felt our captive's charms,
Her arts victorious triumph'd o'er our arms.
Victory
Quotes, by Alexander Pope , Source: Horace
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Accept a miracle; instead of wit,--
See two dull lines by Stanhope's pencil writ.
Miracles
Quotes, by Alexander Pope , Source: to Lord Chesterfield on using his pencil, according to John Taylor in "Records of My Life"
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Bring, bring the madding Bay, the drunken wine;
The creeping, dirty, courtly Ivy join.
Ivy
Quotes, by Alexander Pope , Source: The Dunciad (bk. I, l. 303)
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Where round some mould'ring tow'r pale ivy creeps,
And low-brow'd rocks hang nodding o'er the deeps.
Ivy
Quotes, by Alexander Pope , Source: Eloisa to Abelard (l. 243)
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Search then the ruling passion; there alone,
The wild are constant, and the cunning known;
The fool consistent, and the false sincere;
Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here.
Passion
Quotes, by Alexander Pope , Source: Moral Essays (ep. I, l. 174)
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And you, brave Cobham! to the latest breath
Shall feel your ruling passion strong in death.
Passion
Quotes, by Alexander Pope , Source: Moral Essays (ep. I, l. 262)
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In men, we various ruling passions find;
In women two almost divide the kind;
Those only fix'd, they first or last obey.
The love of pleasure, and the love of sway.
Passion
Quotes, by Alexander Pope , Source: Moral Essays (ep. II, l. 207)
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The ruling passion, be it what it will,
The ruling passion conquers reason still.
Passion
Quotes, by Alexander Pope , Source: Moral Essays (ep. III, l. 153)
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How index-learning turns no student pale,
Yet holds the eel of science by the tale.
Science
Quotes, by Alexander Pope , Source: The Dunciad (bk. I, l. 279)
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One science only will one genius fit,
So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
Science
Quotes, by Alexander Pope , Source: Essay of Criticism (pt. I, l. 60)
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Pretty! in amber to observe the forms
Of hairs, of straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms!
The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare,
But wonder how the devil they got there.
Wonders
Quotes, by Alexander Pope , Source: Prologue to the Satires (l. 169)
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And bear about the mockery of woe
To midnight dances and the public show.
Misery
Quotes, by Alexander Pope , Source: To the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady (l. 57)
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You purchase pain with all that joy can give,
And die of nothing but a rage to live.
Pain
Quotes, by Alexander Pope , Source: Moral Essays (ep. II, l. 99)
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In Faith and Hope the world will disagree,
But all mankind's concern is charity.
Charity
Quotes, by Alexander Pope , Source: Essay on Man (ep. III, l. 307)
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To hide the fault I see:
That mercy I to others show,
That mercy show to me.
Mercy
Quotes, by Alexander Pope , Source: Universal Prayer
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Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it
Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute.
Clouds
Quotes, by Alexander Pope , Source: Moral Essays (ep. 2, l. 19)
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From hyperborean skies
Embodied dark, what clouds of vandals rise.
Sky
Quotes, by Alexander Pope , Source: The Dunciad (III, l. 85)
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From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part,
And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art.
Grace
Quotes, by Alexander Pope , Source: Essay on Criticism (l. 152)
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. . . th' approach of night
The skies yet blushing with departing light,
When falling dews with spangles deck'd the glade,
And the low sun had lengthen'd ev'ry shade.
Twilight
Quotes, by Alexander Pope , Source: Pastorals--Autumn (l. 98)
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