| 295 Famous Quotes by Alexander Pope
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“If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us
out?"”
Stupidity Quotes Source: Essay on Criticism (l. 612)
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“Who know but He, whose hand the lightning forms,
Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms,
Pours fierce ambition in a Caesar's mind.”
Ambition Quotes Source: Essay on Man (ep. I, l. 157)
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“Oh, sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise.
By mountains pil'd on mountains to the skies?
Heav'n still with laughter the vain toil surveys,
And buries madmen in the heaps they raise.”
Ambition Quotes Source: Essay on Man (ep. IV, l. 74)
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“See the wild Waste of all-devouring years!
How Rome her own sad Sepulchre appears,
With nodding arches, broken temples spread!
The very Tombs now vanish'd like their dead!”
Rome Quotes Source: Moral Essays--Epistle to Addison
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“Now scantier limits the proud arch confine,
And scarce are seen the prostrate Nile or Rhine;
A small Euphrates thro' the piece is roll'd,
And little eagles wave their wings in gold.”
Rivers Quotes Source: Moral Essays--Epistle to Addison (l. 27)
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“Where stray ye, Muses! in what lawn or grove,
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In those fair fields where sacred Isis glides,
Or else where Cam his winding vales divides?”
Rivers Quotes Source: Summer (l. 23)
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“On wings of wind came flying all abroad.”
Haste Quotes Source: Prologue to the Satires (l. 208)
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“Haste is slow.
[Lat., Festinatio tarda est.]”
Haste Quotes Source: Prologue to the Satires (l. 208)
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“Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow;
The rest is all but leather and prunello.”
Worth Quotes Source: Essay on Man (epistle IV, 203)
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“The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.”
Cookery Quotes Source: Satires--Horace (epistle II, bk. II, l. 85)
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“So modern 'pothecaries, taught the art
By doctor's bills to play the doctor's part,
Bold in the practice of mistaken rules,
Prescribe, apply, and call their masters fools.”
Medicine Quotes Source: Essay on Criticism (l. 108)
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“Learn from the beasts the physic of the field.”
Medicine Quotes Source: Essay on Man (ep. III, l. 174)
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“Who shall decide when doctors disagree,
And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?”
Medicine Quotes Source: Moral Essays (ep. III)
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“Banished the doctor, and expell'd the friend.”
Medicine Quotes Source: Moral Essays (ep. III, l. 330)
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“As man, perhaps, the moment of his breath,
Receives the lurking principle of death,
The younger disease, that must subdue at length,
Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength.”
Disease Quotes Source: Essay on Man (ep. II, l. 133)
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“But just disease to luxury succeeds,
And ev'ry death its own avenger breeds.”
Disease Quotes Source: Essay on Man (ep. III, l. 165)
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“Health consists with Temperance alone.”
Health Quotes Source: Essay on Man (ep. IV, l.81)
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“It is part of the cure to wish to be cured.
[Lat., Pars sanitatis velle sanari fruit.]”
Health Quotes Source: Essay on Man (ep. IV, l.81)
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“Ask you what provocation I have had?
The strong antipathy of good to bad.”
Cause Quotes Source: Epilogue to Satires (dialogue 2, l. 205)
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“To err is human, to forgive, divine.”
Forgiveness Quotes Source: Essay on Criticism
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“Good-nature and good-sense must ever join;
To err is human, to forgive, divine.”
Forgiveness Quotes Source: Essay on Criticism (l. 522)
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“Thee too, my Paridel! she mark'd thee there,
Stretch'd on the rack of a too easy chair,
And heard thy everlasting yarn confess
The Pains and Penalties of Idleness.”
Idleness Quotes Source: The Dunciad (bk. IV, l. 341)
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“And each blasphemer quite escape the rod,
Because the insult's not on man, but God?”
Swearing Quotes Source: Epilogue to Satires (dialogue II, l. 199)
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“How glowing guilt exalts the keen delight!”
Guilt Quotes Source: Eloisa to Abelard (l. 230)
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“Alas! the small discredit of a bribe
Scarce hurts the lawyer, but undoes the scribe.”
Bribery Quotes Source: Epilogue to Satire (dialogue II, l. 46)
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