| 295 Famous Quotes by Alexander Pope
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“Others import yet nobler arts from France,
Teach kings to fiddle, and make senates dance.”
Dancing Quotes Source: The Dunciad (bk. IV, l. 597)
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“What the weak head with strongest bias rules,
Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.”
Pride Quotes Source: Essay on Criticism (l. 203)
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“In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies;
All quit their sphere and rush into the skies.
Pride still is aiming at the bless'd abodes,
Men would be angels, angels would be gods.”
Pride Quotes Source: Essay on Man (ep. I, l. 124)
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“Thus unlamented pass the proud away,
The gaze of fools and pageant of a day;
So perish all, whose breast ne'er learn'd to glow
For others' good, or melt at others' woe.”
Pride Quotes Source: Memory of an Unfortunate Lady (l. 4)
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“He best can paint them who shall feel them most.”
Painting Quotes Source: Eloisa to Abelard (last line)
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“Lely on animated canvas stole
The sleepy eye, that spoke the melting soul.”
Painting Quotes Source: Second Book of Horace (ep. I, l. 149)
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“But would you sing, and rival Orpheus' strain.
The wond'ring forests soon should dance again;
The moving mountains hear the powerful call.
And headlong streams hand listening in their fall!”
Singing Quotes Source: Summer (l. 81)
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“For fools admire, but me of sense approve.”
Admiration Quotes Source: Essay on Criticism (l. 391)
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“Be niggards of advice on no pretense;
For the worst avarice is that of sense.”
Advice Quotes Source: Essay on Criticism (l. 578)
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“Condemned whole years in absence to deplore,
And image charms he must behold no more.”
Absence Quotes Source: Eloise to Abelard (l. 361)
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“Then marble, soften'd into life, grew warm.”
Sculpture Quotes Source: Second Book of Horace (ep. I, l. 146)
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“I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.”
Sculpture Quotes Source: Second Book of Horace (ep. I, l. 146)
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“Know then, unnumber'd Spirits round thee fly,
The light Militia of the lower sky.”
Spirits Quotes Source: Rape of the Lock (I, 41)
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“A long, exact, and serious comedy;
In every scene some moral let it teach,
And, if it can, at once both please and preach.”
Acting Quotes Source: Epistle to Miss Blount--With the Works of Voiture (l. 22)
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“There still remains to mortify a wit
The many-headed monster of the pit.”
Acting Quotes Source: Horace (ep. I, bk. II, l. 30)
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“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 scene, and be what they behold--
For this the tragic Muse first trod the stage.”
Acting Quotes Source: Prologue to Addison's Cato (l. 1)
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“Your scene precariously subsists too long,
On French translation and Italian song.
Dare to have sense yourselves; assert the stage;
Be justly warm'd with your own native rage.”
Acting Quotes Source: Prologue to Addison's Cato (l. 42)
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“Blessed is he who expects nothing for he shall never be
disappointed.”
Expectation Quotes Source: in a letter to Gay
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“The doubtful beam long nods from side to side.”
Doubt Quotes Source: Rape of the Lock (canto V, l. 73)
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“Envy will merit as its shade pursue,
But like a shadow, proves the substance true.”
Envy Quotes Source: Essay on Criticism (pt. II, l. 266)
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“Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave,
Is emulation in the learn'd or brave.”
Envy Quotes Source: Essay on Man (ep. II, l. 191)
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“Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne.”
Jealousy Quotes Source: Prologue to the Satires (l. 197)
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“All seems infected that the infected spy,
As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.”
Suspicion Quotes Source: Essay on Criticism (l. 568)
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“Soon as thy letters trembling I unclose,
That well-known name awakens all my woes.”
Post Quotes 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 Source: Eloisa to Abelard (l. 35)
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