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Alexander Pope Quotes - Page 8

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What Conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do; This teach me more than Hell to shun, That more than Heav'n pursue.

What Conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do; This teach me more than Hell to shun, That more than Heav'n pursue.

Done, Hell, Teach

Alexander Pope, John Wilson Croker (1871). “The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials”, p.462

I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.

God, Christian, Adversity

"Thoughts on Various Subjects" (1727)

Who are next to knaves? Those that converse with them.

Knaves, Next, Converses

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

Some judge of authors' names, not works, and then Nor praise nor blame the writings, but the men.

Writing, Men, Names

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.105

Homer excels all the inventors of other arts in this: that he has swallowed up the honor of those who succeeded him.

Art, Honor, Inventor

Man, like the generous vine, supported lives; the strength he gains is from the embrace he gives.

Men, Giving, Society

Alexander Pope (2012). “Essay on Man and Other Poems”, p.68, Courier Corporation

Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows.

Blow, Zephyr, Strain

Alexander Pope (1717). “Works of Mister Alexander Pope”, p.95

And make each day a critic on the last.

Each Day, Lasts, Critics

Alexander Pope (1778). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Four Volumes Complete. With His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements. Carefully Collated and Compared with Former Editions: Together with Notes from the Various Critics and Commentators”, p.79

Drink is the feast of reason and the flow of soul.

Drinking, Wine, Alcohol

Imitations of Horace bk. 2, Satire 1, l. 127 (1734)

A perfect woman's but a softer man.

Men, Perfect, Perfect Woman

Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense. There are forty men of wit for one man of sense; and he that will carry nothing about him but gold, will be every day at a loss for want of readier change.

Loss, Men, Common Sense

Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson (1812). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq., in Verse and Prose: With a Selection of Explanatory Notes”, p.227

Our plenteous streams a various race supply, The bright-eyed perch with fins of Tyrian dye, The silver eel, in shining volumes roll'd, The yellow carp, in scales bedropp'd with gold, Swift trouts, diversified with crimson stains, And pikes, the tyrants of the wat'ry plains.

Yellow, Lakes, Race

Alexander Pope (2008). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Volume I: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.128, ReadHowYouWant.com

Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.

Inspirational, Lying, Character

Alexander Pope (1823). “An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles, to Henry St. John, Lord Bolingbroke : to which is Added, The Universal Prayer, with Other Poems”, p.33

I believe it is no wrong Observation, that Persons of Genius, and those who are most capable of Art, are always fond of Nature, as such are chiefly sensible, that all Art consists in the Imitation and Study of Nature. On the contrary, People of the common Level of Understanding are principally delighted with the Little Niceties and Fantastical Operations of Art, and constantly think that finest which is least Natural.

Art, Believe, Thinking

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.397

Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.

Friendship, Philosophy, Philosopher

An Essay on Man Epistle 4, l. 390 (1734)

If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.

God, Wise, Men

'An Essay on Man' Epistle 2 (1733) l. 1.

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

Wise, Honesty, Women

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.124

Nothing is more certain than much of the force; as well as grace, of arguments or instructions depends their conciseness.

Grace, Argument, Instruction

Alexander Pope (1873). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Edited with Notes and Introductory Memoir by Adolphus William Ward”, p.192

An atheist is but a mad, ridiculous derider of piety, but a hypocrite makes a sober jest of God and religion; he finds it easier to be upon his knees than to rise to a good action.

Atheist, Hypocrite, Mad

Alexander Pope, Owen Ruffhead (1807). “Poetry and letters-1807”, p.109

Learn to live well, or fairly make your will; You've play'd, and lov'd, and ate, and drank your fill: Walk sober off, before a sprightlier age Comes titt'ring on, and shoves you from the stage.

Life, Play, Age

Alexander Pope, William Warburton (Bp. of Gloucester), Colley Cibber (1804). “The poetical works of Alexander Pope: with his last corrections, additions and improvements”, p.105

Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.

Littles, Gale, Driving

Alexander Pope (1776). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Six Volumes Complete. With His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements; Together with All His Notes, as They Were Delivered to the Editor a Little Before His Death: Printed Verbatim from the Octavo Edition of Mr. Warburton”, p.75

Unthought-of Frailties cheat us in the Wise.

Wise, Cheat, Frailty

Alexander Pope (1822). “The Works of Alexander Pope”, p.181

A naked lover bound and bleeding lies!

Lying, Deceit, Naked

Alexander Pope (1850*). “The works of Alexander Pope. With notes by dr. Warburton”, p.135

I would not be like those Authors, who forgive themselves some particular lines for the sake of a whole Poem, and vice versa a whole Poem for the sake of some particular lines. I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts.

Believe, Forgiving, Vices

Alexander Pope (1873). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Edited with Notes and Introductory Memoir by Adolphus William Ward”, p.4

A man who admires a fine woman, has yet not more reason to wish himself her husband, than one who admired the Hesperian fruit, would have had to wish himself the dragon that kept it.

Husband, Women, Dragons

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.314

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