Alexander Pope quotes

But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.

Alexander Pope

All are but parts of one stupendous whole, whose body Nature is, and God the soul.

Alexander Pope

A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead.

Alexander Pope

For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those who move easiest have learned to dance.

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Tis education forms the common mind, just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.

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Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll, charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

Alexander Pope

To err is human, to forgive divine.

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Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be.

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Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

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The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.

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There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.

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The learned is happy, nature to explore,.

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Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

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Those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.

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Wit is the lowest form of humor.

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Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.

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A man should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

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Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.

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Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.

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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others upon ourselves.

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On life's vast ocean diversely we sail, Reason the card, but passion is the gale.

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Order is Heaven's first law, and this confessed, some are, and must be, greater than the rest, more rich, more wise, but who infers from hence that such are happier, shocks all common sense. Condition, circumstance, is not the thing, bliss is the same in subject or in king.

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No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.

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Not always actions show the man, we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.

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The difference is too nice,
where ends the virtue or begins the vice.

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Know then thyself, presume not God to scan. The proper study of mankind is man.

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"Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed" was the ninth beatitude.

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How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?

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Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old:It is the rust we value, not the gold.

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Where'er you walk, cool glades shall fan the glade
Trees, where you sit, shall crowd into a shade
Where'er you tread, the blusing flow'rs shall rise,
And all things flourish where you turn your eyes.

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Trust not yourself, but your defects to know. Make use of every friend and every foe.

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Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.

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Never was it given to mortal man, To lie so boldly as we women can.

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The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.

Alexander Pope