| 295 Famous Quotes by Alexander Pope
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“'Tis use alone that sanctifies expense
And splendor borrow all her rays from sense.”
Sense Quotes Source: Moral Essays (ep. IV, l. 179)
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“Good sense which only is the gift of Heaven,
And though no science, fairly worth the seven.”
Sense Quotes Source: Moral Essays (ep. IV, l. 43)
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“Fool, 'tis in vain from wit to wit to roam:
Know, sense, like charity, begins at home.”
Sense Quotes Source: Umbra
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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!”
Instinct Quotes Source: Essay on Man (ep. I, l. 221)
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“But honest instinct comes a volunteer;
Sure never to o'er-shoot, but just to hit,
While still too wide or short in human wit.”
Instinct Quotes Source: Essay on Man (ep. III, l. 85)
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“Say first, of God above or man below,
What can we reason but from what we know?”
Reason Quotes Source: Essay on Man (ep. I, l. 17)
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“Reason, however able, cool at best,
Cares not for service, or but serves when prest,
Stays till we call, and then not often near.”
Reason Quotes Source: Essay on Man (ep. III, l. 85)
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“Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise;
His pride in reasoning, not in acting lies.”
Reason Quotes Source: Moral Essays (ep. 1, l. 117)
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“No silver saints, by dying misers giv'n,
Here brib'd the rage of ill-requited heav'n;
But such plain roofs as Piety could raise,
And only vocal with the Maker's praise.”
Churches Quotes Source: Eloisa to Abelard (l. 137)
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“Who builds a church to God, and not to Fame,
Will never mark the marble with his Name.”
Churches Quotes Source: Moral Essays (ep. III, l. 285)
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“To Kerke the narre, from God more farre.”
Churches Quotes Source: Moral Essays (ep. III, l. 285)
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“See Christians, Jews, one heavy sabbath keep,
And all the western world believe and sleep.”
Sabbath Quotes Source: The Dunciad (bk. III, l. 99)
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“E'en Sunday shines no Sabbath day to me.”
Sabbath Quotes Source: Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot--Prologue to the Satires (l. 12)
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“The sound must seem an echo to the sense.”
Sound Quotes Source: Essay on Criticism (l. 365)
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“Who dare to love their country, and be poor.”
Love of country Quotes Source: On his Grotto at Twickenham
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“The infant, on opening his eyes, ought to see his country, and to
the hour of his death never lose sight of it.
[Fr., Un enfant en ouvrant ses yeux doit voir la patrie, et
jusqu'a la mort ne voir qu'elle.]”
Love of country Quotes Source: On his Grotto at Twickenham
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“All Nature is but art unknown to thee;
All chance direction, which thou canst not see;
All discord, harmony not understood;
All partial evil, universal good;
And spite of pride, in erring reason's spite,
One truth is clear, Whatever is is right.”
Right Quotes Source: Essay on Man (ep. I, l. 289)
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“Always do right. That will gratify some of the people and
astonish the rest.”
Right Quotes Source: Essay on Man (ep. I, l. 289)
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“No question is ever settled
Until it is settled right.”
Right Quotes Source: Essay on Man (ep. I, l. 289)
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“Nature made every fop to plague his brother,
Just as one beauty mortifies another.”
Foppery Quotes Source: Satire IV (l. 258)
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“Oh her white breast a sparkling cross she wore,
Which Jews might kiss and Infidels adore.”
Jewels Quotes Source: Rape of the Lock (canto II, l. 7)
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“Th' embroider'd suit at least he deem'd his prey;
That suit an unpaid tailor snatched away.”
Tailors Quotes Source: The Dunciad (bk. II, l. 117)
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“The learn'd reflect on what before they knew.”
Reflection Quotes Source: Essay on Criticism (pt. III, l. 180)
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“All fame is foreign, but of true desert;
Plays round the head, but comes not to the heart:
One self approving hour whole years out-weighs
Of stupid starers, and of loud huzzas;
And more true joy Marcellus exil'd feels,
Than Caesar with a senate at his heels.”
Self-examination Quotes Source: Essay on Man (ep. IV, l. 253)
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“Condition, circumstance, is not the thing;
Bliss is the same in subject or in king.”
Circumstance Quotes Source: Essay on Man (ep. IV, l. 57)
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