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Alexander Pope Quotes - Page 6

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All seems infected that th' infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.

All seems infected that th' infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.

Eye, Yellow, Spy

'An Essay on Criticism' (1711) l. 558

With the mistake your life goes in reverse. Now you can see exactly what you did Wrong yesterday and wrong the day before And each mistake leads back to something worse.

Mistake, Yesterday, Reverse

See how the World its Veterans rewards! A Youth of Frolics, an old Age of Cards; Fair to no purpose, artful to no end, Young without Lovers, old without a Friend; A Fop their Passion, but their Prize a Sot; Alive ridiculous, and dead forgot.

Life, Passion, Age

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.223

Is not absence death to those who love?

Love, Absence, Saying Good Bye

Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles, William Warburton, Joseph Warton (1806). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Memoirs of the life and writings of Pope. Recommendatory poems. A discourse on pastoral poetry. Pastorals. Messiah. Windsor forest. Odes. Two chorus's to the tragedy of Brutus. The dying Christian to his soul. An essay on criticism. The rape of the lock. Elegy to the memory of an unfortunate lady. Prologue to Mr. Addison's tragedy of Cato. Epilogue to Mr. Rowe's Jane Shore”, p.379

Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.

Friendship, Merit, Praise

Homerus, Alexander Pope (1718). “The Iliad of Homer”

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

Friendship, Trust, Knowledge

Alexander Pope (1867). “Poetical Works, with Life of the Author and Notes”, p.36

A little learning is a dangerous thing.

Education, Learning, Knowledge

An Essay on Criticism l. 215 (1711) See Drayton 2

Beauty draws us with a single hair.

Hair, Draws, Tresses

'The Rape of the Lock' (1714) canto 2, l. 27

Passions are the gales of life.

Life, Passion, Literature

Attributed to Alexander Pope by Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, in a letter to Jonathan Swift, March 29, 1730.

The world is a thing we must of necessity either laugh at or be angry at; if we laugh at it, they say we are proud; if we are angry at it, they say we are ill-natured.

Laughing, World, Proud

Alexander Pope (1812). “The works of Alexander Pope. With a selection of explanatory notes, and the account of his life by dr. Johnson”, p.230

Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense.

Common Sense, Half, Fine

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.377

He best can paint them who shall feel them most.

Painting, Paint, Feels

Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles, Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson, Gilbert Wakefield (1806). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. in Verse and Prose: Containing the Principal Notes of Drs. Warburton and Warton: Illustrations, and Critical and Explanatory Remarks, by Johnson, Wakefield, A. Chalmers ... and Others; to which are Added, Now First Published, Some Original Letters, with Additional Observations, and Memoirs of the Life of the Author”, p.115

I am his Highness' dog at Kew; Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?

Dog, Praying, Highness

"Epigram Engraved on the Collar of a Dog Which I Gave to His Royal Highness" (1738) See Nursery Rhymes 15

A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.

Age, Cards, Youth

'Epistles to Several Persons' 'To a Lady' (1735) l. 241

The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

Creativity, Destiny, Creative

Our proper bliss depends on what we blame.

Blame, Bliss, Depends

Alexander Pope, John Wilson Croker (1871). “The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials”, p.370

Cavil you may, but never criticise.

May, Critics, Criticise

Alexander Pope (1795). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Eight Volumes, Complete”, p.102

Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?

Writing, Parent, Ink

Alexander Pope (2002). “Alexander Pope: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.178, Routledge

The laughers are a majority.

Laughter, Majority

As some to Church repair, not for the doctrine, but the music there.

Music, Church, Doctrine

'An Essay on Criticism' (1711) l. 342

We ought, in humanity, no more to despise a man for the misfortunes of the mind than for those of the body, when they are such as he cannot help; were this thoroughly considered we should no more laugh at a man for having his brains cracked than for having his head broke.

Men, Laughing, Humanity

Alexander Pope (1812). “The works of Alexander Pope. With a selection of explanatory notes, and the account of his life by dr. Johnson”, p.230

Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgement, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is PRIDE, the never-failing vice of fools.

Failure, Pride, Men

Alexander Pope (1808). “The poetical works of Alexander Pope. To which is prefixed the life of the author”, p.54

A king is a mortal god on earth, unto whom the living God hath lent his own name as a great honour; but withal told him, he should die like a man, lest he should be proud, and flatter himself that God hath with his name imparted unto him his nature also. JOHN LOCKE, "Of a King", The Conduct of the Understanding: Essays, Moral, Economical, and Political A king may be a tool, a thing of straw; but if he serves to frighten our enemies, and secure our property, it is well enough: a scarecrow is a thing of straw, but it protects the corn.

Kings, Men, Names

When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old; and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed.

Too Late, May, Aging

Alexander Pope, William Roscoe (1824). “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,”, p.307

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

Dance, Art, Moving

"The Works of Alexander Pope".

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