| 295 Famous Quotes by Alexander Pope
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“Get place and wealth, if possible, with grace;
If not, by any means get wealth and place.”
Wealth Quotes Source: Epistles of Horace (ep. I, bk. I, l. 103)
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“What riches give us let us then inquire:
Meat, fire, and clothes. What more? Meat, clothes, and fire.
Is this too little?”
Wealth Quotes Source: Moral Essays (ep. III, l. 79)
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“Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.”
Wealth Quotes Source: Moral Essays (ep. III, l. 79)
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“What nature wants, commodious gold bestows;
'Tis thus we cut the bread another sows.”
Gold Quotes Source: Moral Essay (ep. III, l. 21)
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“Who sees pale Mammom pine amidst his store,
Sees but a backward steward for the poor.”
Mammon Quotes Source: Moral Essays (ep. III, l. 171)
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“'Tis strange the miser should his cares employ
To gain those riches he can ne'er enjoy;
Is it less strange the prodigal should waste
His wealth to purchase what he ne'er can taste?”
Misers Quotes Source: Moral Essays (ep. IV, l. 1)
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“Ye flowers that drop, forsaken by the spring,
Ye birds that, left by summer, cease to sing,
Ye trees that fade, when Autumn heats remove,
Say, is not absence death to those who love?”
Autumn Quotes Source: Pastorals--Autumn (l. 27)
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“Thus sung the shepherds till th' approach of night,
The skies yet blushing with departing light,
When falling dews with spangles deck'd the glade,
And the low sun had lengthened every shade.”
Autumn Quotes Source: Pastorals--Autumn (last lines)
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“Like Cato, give his little senate laws,
And sit attentive to his own applause.”
Applause Quotes Source: Prologue to the Satires (l. 207)
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“Hence the fool's paradise, the statesman's scheme,
The air-built castle, and the golden dream,
The maid's romantic wish, the chemist's flame,
And poet's vision of eternal fame.”
Visions Quotes Source: The Dunciad (bk. III, l. 9)
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“Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows.”
Zephyrs Quotes Source: Essay on Criticism (pt. II, l. 366)
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“Lull'd by soft zephyrs thro' the broken pane.”
Zephyrs Quotes Source: Prologue to Satires (l. 42)
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“And soften'd sounds along the waters die:
Smooth flow the waves, the zephyrs gently play.”
Zephyrs Quotes Source: Rape of the Lock (canto II, l. 50)
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“Soft o'er the shrouds aerial whispers breathe,
That seemed but zephyrs to the train beneath.”
Zephyrs Quotes Source: Rape of the Lock (canto II, l. 58)
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“The balmy zephyrs, silent since her death,
Lament the ceasing of a sweeter breath.”
Zephyrs Quotes Source: Winter (l. 45)
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“Divert her eyes with pictures in the fire.”
Fire Quotes Source: Epistle to Mrs. Teresa Blount, on her leaving the Town after the Coronation
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“How happy is the blameless vestal's lot!
The world forgetting, by the world forgot.”
Obscurity Quotes Source: Eloisa to Abelard (l. 207)
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“Thus let me live, unseen, unknown,
Thus unlamented let me die;
Steal from the world, and not a stone
Tell where I lie.”
Obscurity Quotes Source: Ode on Solitude
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“What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards?
Alas! not all the blood, of all the Howards.”
Ancestry Quotes Source: Essay on Man (ep. IV, l. 215)
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“Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land?
All fear, none aid you, and few understand.”
Help Quotes Source: Essay on Man (ep. IV, l. 264)
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“Never elated while one man's oppress'd;
Never dejected while another's blessed.”
Sympathy Quotes Source: Essay on Man (ep. IV, l. 323)
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“Obliged by hunger and request of friends.”
Hunger Quotes Source: Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot--Prologue to the Satires (l. 44)
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“Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand,
They rave, recite, and madden round the land.”
Oratory Quotes Source: Prologue to Satires (l. 5)
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“Form'd by thy converse, happily steer
From grave to gay, from lively to severe.”
Conversation Quotes Source: Essay on Man (ep. IV, l. 379)
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“The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read,
With loads of learned lumber in his head.”
Stupidity Quotes Source: Essay on Criticism (l. 612)
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