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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  • Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
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  • Fools rush in where angels fear to thread.
    Source: An essay on criticism
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  • For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
    Source: An Essay on Criticism 625
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  • For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.
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  • For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.
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  • For virtue's self may too much zeal be had; the worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
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  • Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.
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  • 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.
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  • Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.
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  • Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.
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  • Honor and shame from no condition rise; Act well your part, there all the honor lies.
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  • Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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  • Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.
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  • How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
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  • 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.
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  • How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!
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  • How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?
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  • I am his Highness dog at Kew; pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?
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  • I find myself... hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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  • I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.
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