Alexander Pope quotes - page 2

True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can. (Alexander Pope)
Passions are the gales of life. View quote
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Men dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake. View quote
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A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain And drinking largely sobers us again. View quote
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If I am right, Thy grace impart, Still in the right to stay If I am wrong, O teach my heart to find that better way. View quote
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And die of nothing but a rage to live. View quote
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What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease. View quote
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Ye gods annihilate but space and time. And make two lovers happy. View quote
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Oft, as in airy rings they skim the heath, The clamtrous lapwings feel the leaden death Oft, as the mounting larks their notes prepare They fall, and leave their little lives in air. View quote
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Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain Here earth and water seem to strive again, Not chaos-like together crushed and bruised, But, as the world, harmoniously confused Where order in variety we see, And where, though all things differ, all agree. View quote
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Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul. (Alexander Pope)
Never find fault with the absent. View quote
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A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left. View quote
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Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly. View quote
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Absent or dead, still let a friend be dear. View quote
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A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature. View quote
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Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire. View quote
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On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore, Which Jews might kiss and infidels adore. View quote
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Act well your part, there all the honour lies. View quote
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I am his Highness' dog at Kew; Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you? View quote
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To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor. (Alexander Pope)
Nor Fame I slight, nor for her favors call She comes unlooked for, if she comes at all . View quote
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How loved, how honored once, avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot A heap of dust alone remains of thee 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be. View quote
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Is not absence death to those who love. View quote
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Good God how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part. View quote
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