Alexander Pope Quotes

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Alexander Pope

Profession : Poet

Birth : May 21, 1688

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

Alexander Pope

Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.

Alexander Pope

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

Alexander Pope

Woman's at best a contradiction still.

Alexander Pope

A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.

Alexander Pope

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

Alexander Pope

So vast is art, so narrow human wit.

Alexander Pope

'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.

Alexander Pope

One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.

Alexander Pope

All nature is but art unknown to thee.

Alexander Pope

Fools admire, but men of sense approve.

Alexander Pope

A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.

Alexander Pope

Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.

Alexander Pope

And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade.

Alexander Pope

Men would be angels, angels would be gods.

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Order is heaven's first law.

Alexander Pope

Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.

Alexander Pope

Those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.

Alexander Pope

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

Alexander Pope

Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.

Alexander Pope