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Alexander Pope Quotes - Page 9

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Love, Hope, and Joy, fair pleasure's smiling train, Hate, Fear, and Grief, the family of pain, These mix'd with art, and to due bounds confin'd Make and maintain the balance of the mind.

Love, Hope, and Joy, fair pleasure's smiling train, Hate, Fear, and Grief, the family of pain, These mix'd with art, and to due bounds confin'd Make and maintain the balance of the mind.

Art, Pain, Hate

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.79

What Tully said of war may be applied to disputing: "It should be always so managed as to remember that the only true end of it is peace." But generally true disputants are like true sportsmen,--their whole delight is in the pursuit; and the disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.

War, Delight, Care

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.

God, Angel, Pride

Alexander Pope (1830). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Etc”, p.46

For forms of government, let fools contest; Whate'er is best administered, is best.

Government, Fool, Form

"The Complete Poetical Works of Alexander Pope".

All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye.

Gratitude, Eye, Yellow

Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.

Song, Snakes, Lasts

'An Essay on Criticism' (1711) l. 354

Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part.

Friendship, Death, Losing Friends

Letter to Jonathan Swift, 5 December 1732, in George Sherburn (ed.) 'The Correspondence of Alexander Pope' (1956) vol. 3, p. 335

Let Joy or Ease, let Affluence or Content, And the gay Conscience of a life well spent, Calm ev'ry thought, inspirit ev'ry grace, Glow in thy heart, and smile upon thy face.

Heart, Gay, Joy

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.59

Chaste to her husband, frank to all beside, A teeming mistress, but a barren bride.

Husband, Mistress, Barren

Epistles to Several Persons "To a Lady" l. 71 (1735)

The sound must seem an echo to the sense.

Echoes, Sound, Seems

An Essay on Criticism l. 362 (1711)

To buy books as some do who make no use of them, only because they were published by an eminent printer, is much as if a man should buy clothes that did not fit him, only because they were made by some famous tailor.

Book, Men, Clothes

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.311

Hope springs eternal in the human breast; Man never Is, but always To be Blest. The soul, uneasy, and confin'd from home, Rest and expatiates in a life to come. Lo, the poor Indian! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind; His soul proud Science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or milky way; Yet simple Nature to his hope has giv'n, Behind the cloud-topp'd hill, an humbler heav'n.

Spring, Home, Simple

Alexander Pope, “Essay On Man”

With sharpen'd sight pale Antiquaries pore, Th' inscription value, but the rust adore. This the blue varnish, that the green endears; The sacred rust of twice ten hundred years.

Sight, Blue, Years

Alexander Pope (1797). “Moral essays”, p.305

Ask for what end the heavenly bodies shine, Earth for whose use? Pride answers, 'Tis for mine For me kind nature wakes her genial power, Suckles each herb, and spreads out every flower.

Flower, Pride, Shining

Alexander Pope (1807). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope”, p.5

Ye flowers that drop, forsaken by the spring, Ye birds that, left by summer, cease to sing, Ye trees that fade, when Autumn heats remove, Say, is not absence death to those who love?

Missing You, Summer, Goodbye

Alexander Pope (1807). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope”, p.172

For forms of government let fools contest; Whate'er is best administer'd is best. For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right. In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity.

Life, Fighting, Government

Alexander Pope (1751). “The works of Alexander Pope. With his last corrections, additions, and improvements. Publ. by mr. Warburton. With occasional notes”, p.67

We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.

Funny, Wise, Father

Alexander Pope (1850*). “The works of Alexander Pope. With notes by dr. Warburton”, p.203

Time conquers all, and we must time obey.

Time, Winter, Conquer

Alexander Pope, William Warburton (1797). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Life of Alexander Pope. Poems”, p.88

Love finds an altar for forbidden fires.

Short Love, Fire, Forbidden

Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles, William Warburton, Joseph Warton (1806). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Sappho to Phaon. Eloisa to Abelard. The temple of fame. January and May. The wife of Bath. The first book of Statius's Thebais. The fable of Dryope. Vertumnus and Pomona. Imitations [of English poets] Miscellanies. Epitaphs”, p.44

Avoid Extremes; and shun the fault of such Who still are pleas'd too little or too much.

Littles, Too Much, Faults

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.355

For he lives twice who can at once employ, The present well, and e'en the past enjoy.

Life, Past, Time Management

"The Poems of Alexander Pope". Book edited by John Butt, sixth edition, p. 117, 1970.

Fondly we think we honor merit then, when we but praise ourselves in other men.

Men, Thinking, Honor

Alexander Pope (2015). “An Essay on Criticism”, p.14, Sheba Blake Publishing

Some people are commended for a giddy kind of good-humor, which is as much a virtue as drunkenness.

People, Kind, Virtue

Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.

Blood, Hands, Justice

Alexander Pope (1829). “An Essay on Man: And Other Poems”, p.6

Here am I, dying of a hundred good symptoms.

Dying, Famous Last Words, Hundred

To George, Lord Lyttelton, 15 May 1744, in Joseph Spence 'Anecdotes' (ed. J. Osborn, 1966) no. 637

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