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Alexander Pope Quotes about Life

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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.

Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.

Life, Motivational, Positive

'Imitations of Horace' Epilogue to the Satires (1738) Dialogue 1, l. 135

All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.

Life, God, Nature

'An Essay on Man' Epistle 1 (1733) l. 267

This long disease, my life.

Life, Science, Long

"An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot" l. 131 (1735)

Curse on all laws but those which love has made.

Life, Law, Made

Alexander Pope, John Wilson Croker (1871). “The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials”, p.241

On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.

Inspirational, Funny, Life

Alexander Pope (1825). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With a Sketch of the Author's Life”, p.198

Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.

Love, Life, Sexy

Alexander Pope, John Wilson Croker (1871). “The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials”, p.241

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

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.

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

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

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.

How vast a memory has Love!

Love, Life, Memories

Alexander Pope (1849). “Letters of Alexander Pope Works and Arranged Expresly for the Use Young People”, p.84

The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line.

Life, Garden, Bugs

'An Essay on Man' Epistle 1 (1733) l. 217

Like following life through creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment you detect.

Life, Moments, Following

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.180

First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same: Unerring nature, still divinely bright, One clear, unchanged, and universal light, Life, force, and beauty must to all impart, At once the source, and end, and test of art.

Life, Change, Art

'An Essay on Criticism' (1711) l. 68

Fame, wealth, and honour! what are you to Love?

Life, Wealth, Fame

Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1866). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope. ...”, p.105

Oft, as in airy rings they skim the heath, The clamtrous lapwings feel the leaden death; Oft, as the mounting larks their notes prepare They fall, and leave their little lives in air.

Life, Death, Fall

Alexander Pope, “Windsor Forest”

Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise; Laugh where we must, be candid where we can, But vindicate the ways of God to man.

Life, Laughter, Eye

'An Essay on Man' Epistle 1 (1733) l. 13

Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw; Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite; Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse his riper stage, And beads and prayer-books are the toys of age. Pleased with this bauble still, as that before, Till tired he sleeps, and life's poor play is o'er.

Life, Prayer, Children

Alexander Pope, John Wilson Croker (1871). “The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials”, p.397

Ah! what avails it me the flocks to keep, Who lost my heart while I preserv'd my sheep.

Life, Heart, Sheep

Alexander Pope (1873). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Edited with Notes and Introductory Memoir by Adolphus William Ward”, p.21

O Love! for Sylvia let me gain the prize, And make my tongue victorious as her eyes.

Life, Eye, Tongue

Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1831). “The poetical works of Alexander Pope”, p.23

Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies, And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.

Life, Lying, Venus

Alexander Pope, John Wilson Croker, Whitwell Elwin, William John Courthope (1871). “The Works of Alexander Pope: New Ed. Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials, Collected in Part by John Wilson Croker. With Introd. and Notes by Whitwell Elwin”, p.180

Ye gods, annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy.

Life, Two, Space

'Martinus Scriblerus...or The Art of Sinking in Poetry' ch. 11 (Miscellanies, 1727)

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

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

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