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Alexander Pope Quotes - Page 20

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Where's the man who counsel can bestow, still pleased to teach, and yet not proud to know.

Where's the man who counsel can bestow, still pleased to teach, and yet not proud to know.

Men, Advice, Proud

Alexander Pope (2012). “Essay on Man and Other Poems”, p.20, Courier Corporation

Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.

God, Fall, Hero

'An Essay on Man' Epistle 1 (1733) l. 87

True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd, Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.

Friendship, True Friend, Funny Friend

Translation of the Odyssey, bk. 15, l. 83 (1725 - 1756)

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

Pain, Virtue, Endeavour

'Epistles to Several Persons' 'To a Lady' (1735) l. 163

Two women seldom grow intimate but at the expense of a third person; they make friendships as kings of old made leagues, who sacrificed some poor animal betwixt them, and commenced strict allies; so the ladies, after they have pulled some character to pieces, are from henceforth inviolable friends.

Kings, Women, Character

Alexander Pope (1847). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq., with Notes and Illustrations, by Himself and Others. To which are Added, a New Life of the Author, an Estimate of His Poetical Character and Writings, and Occasional Remarks by William Roscoe, Esq”, p.383

Heaven breathes thro' ev'ry member of the whole One common blessing, as one common soul.

Blessing, Heaven, Soul

Alexander Pope (1824). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: With Notes and Illustrations”, p.175

What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.

Life, Death, Fancy

Alexander Pope, William Warburton (1786). “An essay on man ... Enlarged and improved by the author ... With the notes of William, Lord Bishop of Gloucester”, p.101

Pleasures are ever in our hands or eyes; And when in act they cease, in prospect rise.

Eye, Hands, Pleasure

Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles, William Warburton, Joseph Warton (1806). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Essay on man. Moral essays. An essay on satire”, p.79

Giving advice is many times only the privilege of saying a foolish thing one's self, under the pretense of hindering another from doing one.

Self, Giving, Advice

Alexander Pope, Alexander Chalmers (1807). “A Supplementary Volume to the Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Containing Pieces of Poetry, Not Inserted in Warburton's and Warton's Editions : and a Collection of Letters, Now First Published”, p.122

Superstition is the spleen of the soul.

Soul, Superstitions, Spleen

Alexander Pope, William Roscoe (1847). “The works of Alexander Pope, esq., with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author, an Estimate of his poetical character and writings, and occasional remarks by William Roscoe, esq”, p.379

Is it, in Heav'n, a crime to love too well? To bear too tender or too firm a heart, To act a lover's or a Roman's part? Is there no bright reversion in the sky For those who greatly think, or bravely die?

Life, Heart, Thinking

'Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady' (1717) l. 9

Not grace, or zeal, love only was my call, And if I lose thy love, I lose my all.

Life, Grace, Zeal

Alexander Pope, John Wilson Croker (1871). “The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials”, p.244

So man, who here seems principal alone, Perhaps acts second to some sphere unknown Touches some wheel, or verges to some goal; 'Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.

Men, Goal, Wheels

Alexander Pope (1806). “The works of Alexander Pope. Containing the principal notes of drs. Warburton and Warton [&c.]. To which are added, some original letters, with additional observations, and memoirs, by W.L. Bowles”, p.20

Whether the darken'd room to muse invite, Or whiten'd wall provoke the skew'r to write; In durance, exile, Bedlam, or the Mint, Like Lee or Budgel I will rhyme and print.

Wall, Writing, Rooms

Alexander Pope, William Warburton (1751). “The Works of Alexander Pope: Esq., with His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements; as They Were Delivered to the Editor a Little Before His Death; Together with the Commentaries and Notes of Mr. Warburton”, p.49

Of all affliction taught a lover yet, 'Tis true the hardest science to forget.

Life, Affliction, Taught

Alexander Pope, “Eloisa To Abelard”

Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run amuck, and tilt at all I meet.

Running, Tilt, Weapons

"The complete poetical works of Alexander Pope".

Mark what unvary'd laws preserve each state, Laws wise as Nature, and as fixed as Fate.

Wise, Fate, Law

Alexander Pope (1776). “An essay on man. Enlarged and improved by the author. With notes, critical and explanatory”, p.21

To balance Fortune by a just expense, Join with Economy, Magnificence.

Balance, Magnificence, Economics

Alexander Pope (1873). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Edited with Notes and Introductory Memoir by Adolphus William Ward”, p.252

No creature smarts so little as a fool.

Smart, Littles, Fool

'An Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot' (1735) l. 83.

To rest, the cushion and soft dean invite, who never mentions hell to ears polite.

Ears, Hell, Courtesy

'Epistles to Several Persons' 'To Lord Burlington' (1731) l. 149

But see how oft ambition's aims are cross'd, and chiefs contend 'til all the prize is lost!

Ambition, Lost, Crosses

Praise is like ambergrease: a little whiff of it, and by snatches, is very agreeable; but when a man holds a whole lump of it to your nose, it is a stink, and strikes you down.

Men, Noses, Littles

Alexander Pope, Alexander Chalmers (1807). “A Supplementary Volume to the Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Containing Pieces of Poetry, Not Inserted in Warburton's and Warton's Editions : and a Collection of Letters, Now First Published”, p.129

I lose my patience, and I own it too, When works are censur'd, not as bad but new; While if our Elders break all reason's laws, These fools demand not pardon but Applause.

Law, Criticism, Demand

Alexander Pope, William Warburton (1751). “The Works of Alexander Pope: Esq., with His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements; as They Were Delivered to the Editor a Little Before His Death; Together with the Commentaries and Notes of Mr. Warburton”, p.129

A fly, a grape-stone, or a hair can kill.

Hair, Stones, Grapes

How glowing guilt exalts the keen delight!

Glowing, Guilt, Delight

Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1866). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope. ...”, p.110

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