| 295 Famous Quotes by Alexander Pope
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“'Tis thus the mercury of man is fix'd,
Strong grows the virtue with his nature mix'd.”
Growth Quotes Source: Essay on Man (ep. II, l. 178)
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“Where London's column, pointing at the skies,
Like a tall bully, lifts the head and lies.”
Monuments Quotes Source: Moral Essays (ep. III, l. 339)
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“What beck'ning ghost along the moonlight shade
Invites my steps, and points to yonder glade?”
Apparitions Quotes Source: Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady (l. 1)
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“Who pants for glory, finds but short repose;
A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows.”
Glory Quotes Source: Second Book of Horace (ep. I, l. 300)
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“Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style.
Amaze th' learn'd, and make the learned smile.”
Style Quotes Source: Essay of Criticism (pt. II, l. 126)
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“Expression is the dress of thought, and still
Appears more decent as more suitable;
A vile conceit in pompous words express'd,
Is like a clown in regal purple dress'd.”
Style Quotes Source: Essay on Criticism (l. 318)
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“And not a vanity is given in vain.”
Vanity Quotes Source: Essay on Man (ep. II, l. 290)
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“Here files of pins extend their shining rows,
Puffs, powders, patches, bibles, billet-doux.”
Vanity Quotes Source: Rape of the Lock (canto I, l. 137)
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“Constant at Church and 'Change; his gains were sure;
His givings rare, save farthings to the poor.”
Hypocrisy Quotes Source: Moral Essays (ep. III, l. 347)
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“When at the close of each sad, sorrowing day,
Fancy restores what vengeance snatch'd away.”
Fancy Quotes Source: Eloisa to Abelard (l. 225)
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“The difference is as great between
The optics seeing as the objects seen.
All manners take a tincture from our own;
Or come discolor'd through out passions shown;
Or fancy's beam enlarges, multiplies,
Contracts, inverts, and gives ten thousand dyes.”
Fancy Quotes Source: Moral Essays (ep. I, l. 31)
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“The hungry judges soon the sentence sign,
And wretches hang that jurymen may dine.”
Judges Quotes Source: Rape of the Lock (canto III, l. 21)
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“Who would not praise Patrico's high desert,
His hand unstain'd, his uncorrupted heart,
His comprehensive head? all interests weigh'd,
All Europe sav'd, yet Britain not betray'd.”
Statesmanship Quotes Source: Moral Essays (ep. I, l. 82)
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“Statesman, yet friend to truth! of soul sincere,
In action faithful, and in honour clear;
Who broke no promise, served no private end,
Who gained no title, and who lost no friend,
Ennobled by himself, by all approved,
And praised, unenvied, by the Muse he loved.”
Statesmanship Quotes Source: Moral Essays--To Hamilton (epistle V, l. 67)
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“I'll print it,
And shame the fools.”
Printing Quotes Source: Prologue to Satires (l. 61)
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“Where grows?--where grows it not? If vain our toil,
We ought to blame the culture, not the soil.”
Agriculture Quotes Source: Essay on Man (ep. IV, l. 13)
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“Our rural ancestors with little blest,
Patient of labour when the end was rest,
Indulg'd the day that hous'd their annual grain,
With feasts, and off'rings, and a thankful strain.”
Agriculture Quotes Source: Second Book of Horace (ep. I, l. 241)
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“Here Ceres' gifts in waving prospect stand,
And nodding tempt the joyful reaper's hand.”
Agriculture Quotes Source: Windsor Forest (l. 39)
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“Heaven forming each on other to depend,
A master, or a servant, or a friend,
Bids each on other for assistance call,
Till one man's weakness grows the strength of all.”
Weakness Quotes Source: Essay on Man (ep. II, l. 249)
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“Fine by defect, and delicately weak.”
Weakness Quotes Source: Moral Essays (ep. II, l. 43)
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“Zeal then, not charity, became the guide.”
Zeal Quotes Source: Essay on Man (ep. 111, l. 261)
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“I have more zeal than wit.”
Zeal Quotes Source: Imitations of Horace (bk. II, satire VI, l. 56)
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“Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will,
And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill.”
Zeal Quotes Source: Moral Essays (ep. II, l. 185)
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“Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon
the rights of others.”
Zeal Quotes Source: Moral Essays (ep. II, l. 185)
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“What thin partitions sense from thought divide.”
Sense Quotes Source: Essay on Man (ep. I, l. 226)
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