Alexander Pope Quotes

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Alexander Pope

Profession : Poet

Birth : May 21, 1688

The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.

Alexander Pope

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

Alexander Pope

The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.

Alexander Pope

Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!

Alexander Pope

A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.

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Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel.

Alexander Pope

Gentle dullness ever loves a joke.

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How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!

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Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.

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For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.

Alexander Pope

Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.

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Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

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

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A cherub's face, a reptile all the rest.

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Never find fault with the absent.

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Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.

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Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.

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

Alexander Pope

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.

Alexander Pope

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

Alexander Pope