Quotes by Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope

English poet

Lived from: 1688 - 1744

Category: Poets (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 21 may 1688 Died: 30 may 1744

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  • Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.
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  • Be not the first by whom the new are tried, nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
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  • Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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  • Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
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  • Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
    Letter to William Fortescue (23 september 1725)
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  • Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly!
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  • But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?
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  • But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.
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  • But thousands die without or this or that, die, and endow a college, or a cat: To some, indeed, Heaven grants the happier fate, Tenrich a bastard, or a son they hate.
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  • But when mischief mortals bend their will,
    How soon they find fit instruments of ill!
    Rape of the Lock (1712) Canto III, 125
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  • By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned; By strangers honored, and by strangers mourned.
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  • Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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  • Curse on all laws, but those that love has made.
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  • Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd; if right, I kiss'd the rod.
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  • Die and endow a college or a cat.
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  • Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
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  • Envy will ment as its shade pursue,
    but like a shadow proves the substance true.
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  • Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use.
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  • Fix'd like a plan on his peculiar spot, to draw nutrition, propagate, and rot.
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  • Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men.
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