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Alexander Pope Quotes - Page 2

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What Reason weaves, by Passion is undone.

What Reason weaves, by Passion is undone.

Passion, Reason, Undone

Alexander Pope (1815). “Poetical works”, p.222

A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink of it deeply, or taste it not, for shallow thoughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking deeply sobers us again.

Education, Money, Drinking

Now hollow fires burn out to black, And lights are fluttering low: Square your shoulders, lift your pack And leave your friends and go. O never fear, lads, naught's to dread, Look not to left nor right: In all the endless road you tread There's nothing but the night.

Fear, Night, Fire

Good-nature and good-sense must ever join; To err is human, to forgive, divine.

Forgiveness, Forgiving, Divine

Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1866). “Poetical Works”, p.22

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

Attitude, Blessed, Oppressed

O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.

Peace, War, Names

Sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed.

Vices, Sometimes, Virtue

Alexander Pope (1847). “The works of Alexander Pope, with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author [&c.] by W. Roscoe”, p.135

Genius creates, and taste preserves.

Sublime, Intelligence, Genius

A family is but too often a commonwealth of malignants.

Family, Commonwealth

Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles, William Warburton, Joseph Warton (1806). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq., in Verse and Prose: Containing the Principal Notes of Drs. Warburton and Warton”, p.417

At ev'ry word a reputation dies.

Reputation, Dies

'The Rape of the Lock' (1714) canto 3, l. 16

They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.

Funny, Marriage, Dream

Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1831). “Poetical Works”, p.284

Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; Bliss is the same in subject or in king.

Happiness, Kings, Bliss

Alexander Pope (1835). “The works of Alexander Pope; with a memoir of the author, notes [&c.] by G. Croly”, p.63

Who dies in youth and vigour, dies the best.

Death, Youth, Dies

Homer, Alexander Pope, Gilbert Wakefield (1796). “The Iliad of Homer: Translated by Alexander Pope, Esq. A new edition, with additional notes, critical and illustrative, by Gilbert Wakefield, B.A. ...”, p.12

Religion blushing, veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires.

Fire, Religion, Veils

'The Dunciad' (1742) bk. 4, l. 649

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.

Time, Men, Thinking

Die of a rose in aromatic pain.

Pain, Rose, Dies

Alexander Pope (1847). “The works of Alexander Pope, with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author [&c.] by W. Roscoe”, p.41

That, chang'd thro' all and yet in all the same, Great in the Earth as in th' Ætherial frame, Warms in the Sun, refreshes in the Breeze, Glows in the Stars, and blossoms in the Trees... Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part... Submit - in this, or any other Sphere, Secure to be as blest as thou canst bear. All Nature is but Art, unknown to thee; All Chance, Direction which thou canst not see; All Discord, Harmony not understood... All partial Evil, universal Good.

Art, Stars, Evil

Alexander Pope, “Essay On Man”

No writing is good that does not tend to better mankind in some way or other.

Writing, Doe, Way

Alexander Pope (1847). “The works of Alexander Pope, with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author [&c.] by W. Roscoe”, p.232

Whatever is, is right.

An Essay on Man Epistle 1, l. 293 (1733)

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

Blessed, Men, Expect Nothing

Alexander Pope (1824). “The Works of Alexander Popekesq., with Notes and Illustrations by Himself and Others: To which Were Added, a New Life of the Author, an Estimate of His Poetical Character and Writings, and Occasional Remarks”, p.367

Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.

Wise, Wisdom, Whole

Alexander Pope (1824). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: With Notes and Illustrations”, p.35

Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.

Life, Motivational, Positive

'Imitations of Horace' Epilogue to the Satires (1738) Dialogue 1, l. 135

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.

Food, Health, Anxiety

Two purposes in human nature rule. Self- love to urge, and reason to restrain.

Love, Acceptance, Self

An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.

Honesty, Motivation, Lying

Alexander Pope (1822). “The Works”, p.393

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