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Alexander Pope Quotes about Fate

Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate.

Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate.

Alexander Pope (1820). “An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles to H. St. John Lord Bolinbroke. To which are Added the Universal Prayer, Messiah, and Elegy”, p.7

And binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will.

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.164

Astrologers that future fates foreshow.

Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1831). “Poetical Works”, p.250

Monuments, like men, submit to fate.

Alexander Pope (1849). “Letters of Alexander Pope Works and Arranged Expresly for the Use Young People”, p.70

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

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

A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.

Alexander Pope (1999). “The Dunciad: In Four Books”, Longman Publishing Group

But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?

Alexander Pope (1835). “The works of Alexander Pope; with a memoir of the author, notes [&c.] by G. Croly”, p.126

A brave man struggling in the storms of fate, And greatly falling with a falling state.

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.70