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295 Famous Quotes by Alexander Pope
5/21/1688 - 5/30/1744
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How instinct varies in the grov'lling swine, Compar'd, half-reasoning elephant, with thine! 'Twixt that and reason what a nice barrier! Forever sep'rate, yet forever near!

Swine Quotes, by Alexander Pope , Source: Essay on Man (ep. I, l. 221)

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The hog that ploughs not, not obeys thy call, Lives on the labours of this lord of all.

Swine Quotes, by Alexander Pope , Source: Essay on Man (ep. III, l. 41)

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Th' unwilling gratitude of base mankind!

Gratitude Quotes, by Alexander Pope , Source: Second Book of Horace (ep. I, l. 14)

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Others import yet nobler arts from France, Teach kings to fiddle, and make senates dance.

Dancing Quotes, by Alexander Pope , 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, by Alexander Pope , 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, by Alexander Pope , Source: Essay on Man (ep. I, l. 124)

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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.

Painting Quotes, by Alexander Pope , 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, by Alexander Pope , 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, by Alexander Pope , Source: Summer (l. 81)

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For fools admire, but me of sense approve.

Admiration Quotes, by Alexander Pope , 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, by Alexander Pope , 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, by Alexander Pope , Source: Eloise to Abelard (l. 361)

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Then marble, soften'd into life, grew warm.

Sculpture Quotes, by Alexander Pope , 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, by Alexander Pope , 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, by Alexander Pope , 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, by Alexander Pope , 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, by Alexander Pope , 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, by Alexander Pope , 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, by Alexander Pope , 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, by Alexander Pope , Source: in a letter to Gay

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The doubtful beam long nods from side to side.

Doubt Quotes, by Alexander Pope , 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, by Alexander Pope , 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, by Alexander Pope , Source: Essay on Man (ep. II, l. 191)

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Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne.

Jealousy Quotes, by Alexander Pope , 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, by Alexander Pope , Source: Essay on Criticism (l. 568)

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