| 295 Famous Quotes by Alexander Pope
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“What dire Offence from am'rous Causes springs,
What mighty Contests rise from trivial Things.”
Results Quotes Source: Rape of the Lock (canto I, l. 1)
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“The ends must justify the means.”
Results Quotes Source: Rape of the Lock (canto I, l. 1)
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“In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true
From pois'nous herbs extracts the healing dew?”
Bees Quotes Source: Essay on Man (ep. I, 219)
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“The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine!
Feels at each thread, and lives along the line.”
Spiders Quotes Source: Essay on Man (ep. I, l. 217)
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“Solid pudding against empty praise.”
Praise Quotes Source: The Dunciad (bk. I, l. 54)
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“To what base ends, and by what abject ways,
Are mortals urg'd through sacred lust of praise!”
Praise Quotes Source: Essay on Criticism (l. 520)
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“Praise undeserved is scandal in disguise.”
Praise Quotes Source: First Epistle of Second Book of Horace
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“Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise.”
Mountains Quotes Source: Essay on Criticism (pt. II, l. 32)
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“Some positive persisting fops we know,
Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so;
But you with pleasure own your errors past,
And make each day a critique on the last.”
Errors Quotes Source: Essay on Criticism (pt. III, l. 9)
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“Of fight or fly,
This choice is left ye, to resist or die.”
Choice Quotes Source: Homer's Odyssey (bk. XXII, l. 79)
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“Order is Heaven's first law; and this confess,
Some are and must be greater than the rest.”
Order Quotes Source: Essay on Man (ep. IV, l. 49)
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“Not chaos-like together crush'd and bruis'd,
But, as the world, harmoniously confused:
Where order in variety we see,
And where tho' all things differ, all agree.”
Order Quotes Source: Windsor Forest (l. 13)
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“Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust,
Yet cry, if man's unhappy, God's unjust.”
Providence Quotes Source: Essay on Man (ep. I, l. 117)
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“Who finds not Providence all good and wise,
Alike in what it gives, and what denies.”
Providence Quotes Source: Essay on Man (ep. I, l. 205)
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“Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze,
Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees.”
Providence Quotes Source: Essay on Man (ep. I, l. 271)
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“Who sees with equal eye, as God of all,
A hero perish, or a sparrow fall,
Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd,
And now a bubble burst, and now a world.”
Providence Quotes Source: Essay on Man (ep. I, l. 87)
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“Next o'er his books his eyes began to roll,
In pleasing memory of all he stole;
How here he sipp'd, how there he plunder'd snug,
And suck'd all o'er like an industrious bug.”
Plagiarism Quotes Source: The Dunciad (bk. I, l. 127)
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“With him most authors steal their works, or buy;
Garth did not write his own Dispensary.”
Plagiarism Quotes Source: Essay on Criticism (l. 618)
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“Fear not the anger of the wise to raise;
Those best can fear reproof who merit praise.”
Anger Quotes Source: Essay on Criticism (l. 582)
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“Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer,
And without sneering teach the rest to sneer;
Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike,
Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike;
Alike reserv'd to blame, or to commend,
A tim'rous foe, and a suspicious friend.”
Satire Quotes Source: Prologue to Satires (l. 201)
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“Satire or sense, alas! Can Sporus feel?
Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?”
Satire Quotes Source: Prologue to Satires (l. 307), (Sporus is Lord John Hervey)
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“There are, to whom my satire seems too bold;
Scarce to wise Peter complaisant enough,
And something said of Chartres much too rough.”
Satire Quotes Source: Second Book of Horace (satire I, l. 2)
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“Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet
To run amuck and tilt at all I meet.”
Satire Quotes Source: Second Book of Horace (satire I, l. 71)
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“By flatterers besieged
And so obliging that he ne'er obliged.”
Flattery Quotes Source: Prologue to Satires (l. 207)
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“And more than echoes talk along the walls.”
Echo Quotes Source: Eloisa to Abelard (l. 306)
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Alexander Pope Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
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